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My Mexican Shivah Morirse está en Hebreo

My Mexican Shivah Morirse está en Hebreo

DVD 2006

Set in Polanco, a Jewish quarter of Mexico City, Springall's seriocomic drama depicts the religious rituals and dysfunctional dynamics of a Mexican Jewish family coping with the untimely death of their beloved pater familias Moishe. Cultures collide as Moishe's large family and assorted eccentric friends gather to pay their respects to the dead, sitting shivah for a week, as is the Jewish tradition. Watching the loca familia in mourning is a pair...

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Foreign films
Jewish families Mexico Drama
Shivah (Jewish mourning custom) Drama
Stavans, Ilan Drama
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Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: NR
Other Title:
Morirse está en Hebreo [DVD]
Notes:
Based on a story by Ilǹ Stavans
Original music, Jacobo Lieberman; performed by The Klezmatics; editing, Madeleine Gavin; cinematography, Celiana Cárdenas
Sergio Klainer, Raquel Pankowsky, Martha Roth, David Ostrosky
DVD ; NTSC ; widescreen presentation
For private home use only
In Spanish, Hebrew and Yiddish, with English subtitles
Control Number:
941265
Other Authors:
Cárdenas, Celiana
Fondo para la Produccin̤ Cinematogrf̀ica de Calidad
Gavin, Madeleine
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografa̕
Klainer, Sergio
Klezmatics (Musical group)
Lieberman, Jacobo
Ostrosky, David
Pankowsky, Raquel
Roth, Martha, 1932-
Springall Pictures
Springall, Alejandro
Stavans, Ilan
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