Ida Kamińska
Ida Kamińska (September 18, 1899 – May 21, 1980) was an Academy Award-nominated actress. She began a stage career at the age of five. Her first theater role was in 1912 in Mirele Efros, with her mother and her sister in other roles in the play. In 1965, she starred in the Czechoslovak movie The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos), and she received a 1966 nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her last role was The Angel Levine (1970), directed by Ján Kadár. Following her death from cardiovascular disease in 1980, aged 80, she was interred in the Yiddish theatre section of the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, New York. From Wikipedia.
The Shop on Main Street
as Rozalia LautmannováIn a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono...
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The Black Dress
as KarolaTwo handed chamber piece about a middle aged woman who returns from the camps after WWII and...
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The Angel Levine
as Fanny MishkinMorris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a...
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Without a Home
as uncreditedThe last Yiddish feature made in Poland before WWII, this 1939 film is based on a 1907 play by...
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