{"product_id":"laughter-through-tears-skvoz-slezy-dvd","title":"Laughter Through Tears (Skvoz Slezy) DVD","description":"\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike Sholem Aleichem, on whose\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMotl Peysi: The Cantor's Son\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Enchanted Tailor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estories\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLaughter Through Tears\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis based, director Gricher-Cherikover leavens pathos with humor in his earthy portrait of prerevolutionary shtetl life. Motl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender each time its new owner stops at the inn between Kozodoyevka, where he purchased the creature, and Zlodyevke, where he lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn accord with then-official Soviet policies against antisemitism (which were always as odds with prevailing popular sentiments), Gricher-Cherikover emphasizes the poverty and repression of Jews under Czarist rule. He capitalizes on the skills of the Moscow Art Theater's actors through close attention to facial expression and gesture, and particularly of child actor Moshele Silberman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eaka \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThrough Tears\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUSSR, 1928, 92 minutes, B\u0026amp;W\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSilent with new English intertitles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDirected by Grigori Gritcher-Cherikover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FILM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176383623326,"sku":"bpx1787285388708","price":24.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6345\/4366\/files\/laughter-through-tears-skvoz-slezy-dvd_1.jpg?v=1787285393","url":"https:\/\/urbanwearstore.shop\/products\/laughter-through-tears-skvoz-slezy-dvd","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}