About the film
Menakhem Mendl has big ideas and no money. He tries selling corsets, insurance and anything else he can think of, and every plan fails.
Then he finds a list of rich brides lost by a matchmaker and decides that his fortune lies in marriage-making. His adventures take him on a dream journey all the way to America.
A silent comedy and a rare record of the Jewish world of the old Pale of Settlement.
Did you know?
- It was the screen debut of Solomon Mikhoels, the great actor of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre.
- The intertitles were written by Isaac Babel.
- It is a silent film.
