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Yentl
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
1983 · Directed by Barbra Streisand · 132 min · Music · Drama · Romance · 17 frames
Tagline
In a time when the world of study belonged only to men, there lived a girl who dared to ask..."why?"
Crew
- Screenplay: Barbra Streisand, Jack Rosenthal
- Cinematography: David Watkin
- Edited by: Terry Rawlings
- Music: Michel Legrand
- Production design: Roy Walker, Leslie Tomkins
- Produced by: Rusty Lemorande, Barbra Streisand
Cast
- Barbra Streisand as Yentl
- Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor
- Amy Irving as Hadass
- Nehemiah Persoff as Rebbe Mendel
- Steven Hill as Reb Alter Vishkower
- Allan Corduner as Shimmele
- Ruth Goring as Esther Rachel
- David de Keyser as Rabbi Zalman
- Bernard Spear as Tailor
- Doreen Mantle as Mrs. Shaemen
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Ladbroke, United Artists, Barwood Films
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $30,400,000
- Themes: musical, studies, judaism, disguise, unhappiness, boys' school, woman director, jewish, yeshiva
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