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

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