Notes: | Title from credits; cataloging from credits, container and Internet Movie Database. Originally shot as a silent film in 1924, mostly on location in Vilna. In 1933 sound was added by a group of New York Yiddish actors, who also added the plot device of the narrator, who appears both onscreen in new scenes and in voiceover, to explain the silent story without intertitles. Produced by Leo Forbert, George Roland ; 1924 film directed by Zygmund Turkow ; 1924 screenplay by Henrik Bojm from a play by Peretz Hirshbein ; 1933 screenplay by Jacob Mestel ; photographed by Chas. Hanley. Joseph Buloff, Ester Rokhl-Kominska, Ida Kominska, Zygmunt Turkow, Adam Domb, Moshe Litman, Lev Molilow, Simcha Balanoff, Jacob Meistel, Leib Kadison, Benjamin Fishbein and Ben Basenko. In Yiddish with English subtitles.
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