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  1. The Light Ahead: Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. With David Opatoshu, Helen Beverley, Isidore Cashier, Rosetta Bialis. In a small town in Russia in the 1880s, two young but poor lovers are helped by a wise old bookseller.

    • (90)
    • Drama
    • Edgar G. Ulmer
    • 1939-09-22
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    • (3)
    • Edgar G. Ulmer
  4. This 1939 Yiddish film classic, made on the eve of World War II, is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews.

  5. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free from the poverty and stifling old-world prejudices of the shtetl.

  6. The Light Ahead is the English-language title of a film that was marketed to Yiddish theaters as Di Klyatshe (The Old Mare) and Fishke der Krumer (Fishke the Cripple). Based on stories by Mendele Mocher Sforim, The Light Ahead tells the tale of Fishke, a lame peddler, and the blind girl he loves.

  7. The Light Ahead is possibly the greatest of Edgar G. Ulmers shtetl films. Here, the director counterpoints his pastoral Green Fields to criticize the poverty and superstition that oppress a pair of star-crossed lovers.