Summary: A film of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Anton Checkhov's play Uncle Vanya. Chekhov's portrayal of the frustrations and disillusions of advancing age and the numbing boredom of provincial life in 1890's Russia, is here effortlessly performed by probably the most talented and prestigious cast ever assembled for this work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS UNCCipin, Atrem
Summary: When a young Jewish couple is kidnapped for ransom, it puts their tightly-knit community in jeopardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TESSummary: Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEVTopol
Summary: Tevye the milkman struggles to raise five daughters as observant Jews in the rapidly changing society of pre-revolutionary Ukraine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIDSummary: The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called 'the most powerful movie musical ever made.' Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscarʼ- nominated...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022