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The Cast: |
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Eugeniusz Bodo |
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Henryk Paczek, radio speaker |
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Jozef Orwid |
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Hipolit Paczek, house owner |
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Helena Grossowna |
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Lodzia Packowna |
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Ludwik Sempolinski |
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Kulka Kulkiewicz |
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Stanislaw Wolinski |
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Protazy, Hipolit's servant |
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Czeslaw Skonieczny |
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Damazy, Henryk's servant |
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Felix Chmurkowski |
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Stefan Bonecki |
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Alina Zeliska |
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Alicja Bonecki |
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Julian Krzewinski |
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Director of Polish radio |
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Stefan Laskowski |
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Wincenty Loskot |
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Mieczyslaw Bilazewski |
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Konferansjer na baul makowym |
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Aleksander Suchcicki |
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Radio clerk |
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Kazimierz
Szerszynski |
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Participant of masked ball |
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SHKHEYNIM
(Neighbors)
Original Polish titel: "Pietro
wjzej"
Produced in Warsaw, Poland
fully dubbed into Yiddish
85 minutes; B & W
1937
Two apartment house dwellers, although
unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an
appreciation for and love of classical music, while the
other is a younger man addicted to swing music. The niece of
the older man arrives for a visit and gets into the wrong
apartment. Complications arise.
—Les Adams, via www.imdb.com |
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Leon Trystan, who had co-directed "A
Brivele der Mamen," saw the far-reaching commercial prospects
for Yiddish cinema in America. While Yiddish films were very
well-received in American theatres and by the American
press, such was not the same with Trystan's Polish-language
pictures, "Pietro Wjzej" (The Apartment Above), and released
it in New York in a dubbed Yiddish version as "Shkheynim"
(Neighbors).
It was a light comedy by Polish
writers about two families who live in the same apartment
building and their inability to get along with each other.
The picture featured Polish actors Eugene Bodo and Helen
Gross (Grossowna).
Whereas the Polish releases had failed
to attract any attention in New York a few months earlier,
the Yiddish version did extremely well.
No one repeated this
antic.
-- from "Visions, Images and
Dreams," by Erich A. Goldman |
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