Vanity of Vanities

Суета сует
by Alexey Turkus, Aleksey Shelmanov

The life of a Jewish town flows along the cobblestone pavement and cramped courtyards in its turn. Grandpa flies up on a rooster and waits for angels on the roof, and they jump on his head. The barber Shloime plays the violin. The pharmacist Shpilman refuses to give his daughter Rivka to the son of the resnik Joseph — and Rivka becomes lighter than air from chagrin. Only a wise rebbe knows that marriages are performed in heaven…

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Misha Ditkovsky
younger brother (voice-over)
Joseph Levitis
older brother (groom)
Natalia Rumyantseva
Rivka (the bride)
Marina Policemako
grandmother
Gennady Abramov
grandfather
Mikhail Policemako
uncle Shloime
Grigory Perel
apothecary Shpilman
Igor Pekhovich
kantor Bogelberg
Grigory Kaganovich
Rabbi Reb Mordhe

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