Live original score by master silent film pianist Donald Sosin and violinist Alicia Svigals, the world’s foremost exponent of the klezmer. Read More › In East and West, Molly Picon, star of 1920s Yiddish theater, plays the daughter of a rich, assimilated American who is invited to a family celebration in an Eastern European shtetl. Though her brash behavior alienates the locals, she is admired by a shy orthodox Talmudic scholar. Molly realizes too late that, in the course of a wedding that she thinks is a joke, she has actually been married. This charming comedy also features Picon lifting weights and boxing, teaching young villagers to shimmy and stealing away from services to gorge herself before sundown on Yom Kippur. Newly restored by Filmarchiv, Austria, it will be shown with a live original score by master silent film pianist Donald Sosin and violinist Alicia Svigals, the world’s foremost exponent of the klezmer. Presented in partnership with the Cleveland Silent Film Festival.
