Hester Street
“Goodbye O Lord, I'm Going To America!”
1975 · 1 h 29 min
Directed by 
Joan Micklin Silver
Joan Micklin SilverCast
Steven Keats 
Carol Kane Mel Howard Dorrie Kavanaugh Doris Roberts Stephen Strimpell
Credits
Written by: Joan Micklin Silver
Plot
In 1896, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, Gitl, arrives in New York's Lower East Side to join her Americanised husband, who is ashamed of her, in a black-and-white drama partly in Yiddish.
Sinekatalog’s take
A warm and moving immigrant drama.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (2,498 votes)
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