''The Komediant'' is an Israeli
documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
of 2000, directed by
Arnon Goldfinger and written by Oshra Schwartz. It focuses on the life and careers of the Burstein family of
Yiddish theatre
Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satire, satiric or nostalgic revues; melodr ...
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Pesach Burstein
Pesach "Peishachke" Burstein (April 15, 1896 – April 6, 1986) was a Polish-born American comedian, singer, coupletist, and director of Yiddish vaudeville/theater. He was honored with the Itzik Manger Prize in 1986. His wife Lillian Lux, and ...
, his wife
Lillian Lux, his son
Mike Burstyn
Michael Burstein (; born July 1, 1945) is an Israeli-American actor known onstage as Mike Burstyn. He was born in New York City to the late Yiddish-language actors, Pesach Burstein and Lillian Lux. His first cousin was Borsch Belt comedian, ...
and daughter Susan Burstein-Roth. Made in honor of the 100th birth anniversary of Pesach Burstein, it received the Israeli Academy's Best Documentary Award.
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2000 films
2000 documentary films
Documentary films about Jews and Judaism
Documentary films about theatre
Hebrew-language films
Israeli documentary films
Yiddish-language films
Yiddish theatre
Yiddish culture in Israel
2000s English-language films
2000 multilingual films
Israeli multilingual films
English-language documentary films
English-language Israeli films
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