Tag: Movie Night 26.04.2016

FILM: Hester Street, 1975, adapted and directed by Joan Micklin Silver. Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Plot: This charming, little-known film, set in 1896, deals with assimilation. Gitl, with her young son, arrives from Europe to reunite with her husband, Jake, who lives in New York’s Lower East Side. The film focuses on Gitl’s challenges in…