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East and West

Ost und West

1923·AT
Director: Ivan Abramson, Sidney M. Goldin
DramaComedy

Morris Brown, a New York gambler acquainted more with his checkbook than his prayer book, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. But Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, unexpectedly meets her match--an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsake tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart.

Morris Brown, a New York gambler acquainted more with his checkbook than his prayer book, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. But Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, unexpectedly meets her match--an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsake tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart.

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Cast

Molly Picon

Molly Picon

Mollie

J

Jacob Kalich

S

Sidney M. Goldin

L

Laura Glucksman

E

Eugen Neufeld

J

Johannes Roth

S

Sigi Hofer

E

Eugen Preiß

Crew

Eugen Preiß

writer

Eduard Hoesch

cinematographer

Sidney M. Goldin

writer

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