Screening — The Jester, with Introduction by Zehavit Stern

  • Location:
    San Francisco

6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski (Poland, 1937). This musical comedy set in a Galician shtetl is “a wistful romance that’s interspersed with songs but rooted in the wisecracks and banter of oral Yiddish culture.”—J. Hoberman (88 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film.