Mamele

Directed by Joseph Green and Konrad Tom

With Molly Picon, Edmund Zayenda, Max Bozyk, Gertrude Bulman and Simche Fostel

Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz--tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot--but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role saving siblings, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age.