2000, ISBN: 9781156969847

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Man Who Cried is an 2000 Anglo-French film, written and directed by Sally Potter. The film stars Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton, and John Turturro. The film tells the story of a young Jewish girl who after being separated from her father in Soviet Russia, grows up in Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Man Who Cried is an 2000 Anglo-French film, written and directed by Sally Potter. The film stars Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton, and John Turturro. The film tells the story of a young Jewish girl who after being separated from her father in Soviet Russia, grows up in England. As a young adult, she moves to Paris (shortly before the beginning of World War II), and then flees to the United States when the Nazis move into the French capital. The picture is the last film of the French cinematographer Sacha Vierny. Fegele Abramovich (Christina Ricci), a Russian Jew is separated from her father as a child in 1927. Her father has traveled to America to seek his fortune and plans to send for Fegele and her grandmother. Before leaving, he sings in Yiddish to his daughter Je Crois Entendre Encore from the opera Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet. This song recurs throughout the movie. After her father leaves, the Jewish village is attacked and burned in a pogrom. Fegele escapes with the help of two neighbors and finds herself without her compatriots on a boat headed for Britain. In her hand she clutches a photo of her father, her sole possession. Upon arrival, an English official renames her "Suzie" and places her with foster parents. English students at school taunt her by calling her a "gypsy", but she cannot yet understand English. A teacher at the school overhears her singing Je Crois Entendre Encore in Yiddish, and teaches her to sing and speak in English. As Suzie grows, she is shown singing Purcell's "Dido's Lament" for a school assembly in English. Several years pass and Suzie auditions for a singing dance troupe heading for Paris. In Paris she meets an older Russian dancer, Lola, (Cate Blanchett) and. More: Books, , Films-Directed-by-Sally-Potter~~Books-Group, , , , , , , , , , Books LLC<