Hershele. DVD

  
Israel (1977)

Length: 90 min

Genre: Musical

Director: Joel Silberg

Starring: Mike Burstyn, Arieh Elias, Esti Katz, Mandy Rice-Davies, Shmuel Rodensky, Asher

Tzarfati

Language: Hebrew

Subtitles: English, Hebrew

Sound: 2.0

Israeli-American actor Mike Burstyn won an Israeli Academy Award for the title role in the musical drama Hershele. Hershele is an educated European immigrant who lives in a poor rural neighborhood in Israel. He has been classically trained as a musician, and in an effort to connect with the townspeople he gives music lessons to the local children. They rapidly develop into a talented orchestra, but living in a poor neighborhood, they are unable to draw the same attention as children's groups in other places. Now Hershele and his musician students must find a way to force the rest of the country to take notice.