Enemies, A Love Story (film)
| Enemies, A Love Story | |
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 original film poster | |
| Directed by | Paul Mazursky |
| Produced by | Paul Mazursky |
| Screenplay by |
Roger L. Simon Paul Mazursky |
| Based on |
Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
| Cinematography | Fred Murphy |
| Edited by | Stuart H. Pappé |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release dates |
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Running time | 119 min. |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $7,754,571 |
Enemies, A Love Story is a 1989 film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the 1966 novel Enemies, A Love Story (Yiddish: Sonim, di Geshichte fun a Liebe) by Isaac Bashevis Singer and starred Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin and Margaret Sophie Stein.
Plot
Set in New York City in 1949, the story follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. Throughout the war he survived hidden in a hayloft, taken care of by his Gentile Polish servant, Yadwiga, whom he later takes as his wife in America. Meanwhile, he has a passionate affair with another Holocaust survivor, Masha. To Yadwiga, he poses as a traveling book-salesman despite the fact he is a ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia and perpetual desperation, made more complicated when his first wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to have been killed in the Holocaust comes to New York.
Cast
- Ron Silver as Herman Broder
- Anjelica Huston as Tamara Luria-Broder
- Lena Olin as Masha Bloch-Tortshiner
- Margaret Sophie Stein as Yadwiga, Herman's maid
- Alan King as Rabbi Lembeck
- Judith Malina as Shifra Puah Bloch, Masha's mother
- Elya Baskin as Yasha Kobik
- Paul Mazursky as Leon Tortshiner, Masha's ex-husband
- Phil Leeds as Pesheles
- Rita Karin as Mrs. Schreier
- Zypora Spaisman as Sheva Haddas
Awards
- The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including two nominations in the Best Supporting Actress category for Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin and a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky.
See also
External links
- Enemies, A Love Story at the Internet Movie Database
- Enemies, A Love Story at Box Office Mojo
- Enemies, A Love Story at Rotten Tomatoes