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Cast

Moyshe Oysher

Moyshe Oysher

Saul 'Shloimele' Reichman

Florence Weiss

Florence Weiss

Helen

Judith Abarbanel

Judith Abarbanel

Rivke

Michael Rosenberg

Michael Rosenberg

Yossel Lutchik

Juda Bleich

Juda Bleich

Cantor Zanvel Reichman

Bertha Guttenberg

Bertha Guttenberg

Malke Reichman

Isidore Cashier

Isidore Cashier

W.H. Rosovitch

Vicki Marcus

Vicki Marcus

Saul as a young boy

Lorraine Abarbanal

Lorraine Abarbanal

Rivke as a young girl

Daniel Makarenko

Daniel Makarenko

Irving Honigman

Irving Honigman

Ben, club manager

Rose Wallerstein

Rose Wallerstein

Clara, Helen's roommate

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Ilya Motyleff

Ilya Motyleff

Director

Sidney M. Goldin

Sidney M. Goldin

Director

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The Cantor's Son

19376.0 / 1090 min

Overview

This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an "anti-Jazz Singer." Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he is "discovered" and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart.