Enemies, A Love Story (film)
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Directed by | Paul Mazursky |
Produced by | Paul Mazursky |
Screenplay by | Roger L. Simon Paul Mazursky |
Based on | Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Starring | Ron Silver Anjelica Huston Lena Olin Margaret Sophie Stein |
Music by | Maurice Jarre |
Cinematography | Fred Murphy |
Edited by | Stuart H. Pappé |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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119 min. |
Language | English |
Box office | $7,754,571 |
Enemies, A Love Story is a 1989 film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the 1966 novel Enemies, A Love Story (Yiddish: Sonim, di Geshichte fun a Liebe) by Isaac Bashevis Singer and starred Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin and Margaret Sophie Stein.
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Plot
Set in New York City in 1949, the story follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. Throughout the war he survived hidden in a hayloft, taken care of by his Gentile Polish servant, Yadwiga, whom he later takes as his wife in America. Meanwhile, he has a passionate affair with another Holocaust survivor, Masha. To Yadwiga, he poses as a traveling book-salesman despite the fact he is a ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia and perpetual desperation, made more complicated when his first wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to have been killed in the Holocaust comes to New York.
Cast
- Ron Silver as Herman Broder
- Anjelica Huston as Tamara Broder
- Lena Olin as Masha
- Margaret Sophie Stein as Yadwiga
- Alan King as Rabbi Lembeck
- Judith Malina as Masha's mother
- Elya Baskin as Yasha Kobik
- Paul Mazursky as Leon Tortshiner
- Phil Leeds as Pesheles
- Rita Karin as Mrs. Schreier
- Zypora Spaisman as Sheva Haddas
Awards
- The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including two nominations in the Best Supporting Actress category for Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin and a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky.
See also
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Enemies, A Love Story at IMDb
- Enemies, A Love Story at Box Office Mojo
- Enemies, A Love Story at Rotten Tomatoes
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- 1989 films
- English-language films
- Articles containing Yiddish-language text
- 20th Century Fox films
- American romantic drama films
- American films
- Films about Jews and Judaism
- Films based on American novels
- Films based on works by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Films directed by Paul Mazursky
- Morgan Creek Productions films
- 1980s romantic drama films
- Films set in 1949
- Romantic drama film stubs