The Great Yiddish Love

The Great Yiddish Love (2002) is a drama, documentary film directed by Diane Nerwen.

Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa and Yiddish films from the 1930s and 40s.

Cast

Marlene Dietrich

(archive footage)

Zarah Leander

(archive footage)

Molly Picon

Self - Narrator (voice) (archive footage)