Yiddle with His Fiddle
- Molly Picon: ITKE / jidl
- Simcha FOSTEL: Aria
- Leon Liebgold: Efraim
- Max Bozyk: Isaac Kalamutker
- Dora Fakiel: Teibele
- Basia Liebgold: Teibles mother
- Max Brin: Wedding Guest
- Abraham Kurc: host
- Samuel Landau, Saul Gold
- Chaya Lewin: Miss Fluff tree
- Symche Nathan, theater director Singer
Yidl mitn fiddle ( Yiddish אידל מיטן פֿידל, [ jid'l mit'n fid'l ] German jidl with the fiddle, Polish Yudel gra na skrzypcach, English title Castle in the Sky ) is a 1936 in Kazimierz, the Jewish part of Krakow then and in Warsaw turned American- Polish Yiddish film with the American Jewish actress Molly Picon in a trouser role in the lead role. The production was the musical comedy by actor Joseph Green, who also directed with Jan Nowina- Przybylski and based on a story by Tom Konrad wrote the screenplay. The music is by Abraham Ellstein, the lyrics of Itzik Manger.
The film, which had cost about U.S. $ 50 000, was released in September 1936 in Poland, at the end of Broadway in New York in the cinemas. He was the first internationally successful Yiddish film and was shown around the world. The film received in the Yiddish press consistently great reviews, while the English-speaking American newspapers judged less enthusiastic.
Action
The destitute widower and his daughter Aria ITKE be chased out of her house and to the affluent street musicians. The daughter disguises herself as a boy for safety jidl. Along the way they meet two musicians, Isaac and Froim, which she continues to pull together. Jidl falls in love also playing the violin Froim from which it thinks he has fallen in love with Teibele, an unhappy bride on their wedding play the musicians and the jidl helps to escape. In Warsaw Teibeles talent is discovered as a singer, but she disappears before their first appearance. In their place, occurs involuntarily jidl that is famous and finds at the end of the comedy of errors after years on the passage to America her long-lost lover Froim.
The film takes a critical look with various anti-Semitic stereotypes. So which at the time widespread among anti-Semites, especially by Otto Weininger propagated image of the effeminate Jewish man little Jew is disguised by a man, ( jidl ) called woman caricatured and refuted in the presentation of Froim as the epitome of masculinity, as well as the prejudices that Jews do not drink alcohol, can not swim, do not care about agriculture and sedentary shy.