ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY (FILM)

'''Enemies, a Love Story''' is a 1989 film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the novel ''Enemies, a Love Story'' () by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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Plot

Cast

Awards

See also

Source

Plot

Set in New York City in 1949, the story follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. Throughout the war he survived in a hayloft, taken care of by his gentile Polish servant, Yadwiga, whom he later takes as his wife in America. Meanwhile, he has an affair with another Holocaust survivor, Masha. To Yadwiga, he poses as a traveling book-salesman despite the fact he is simply a ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia and perpetual desperation, made more complicated when his first wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to be killed in the Holocaust, comes to New York.

Cast

★ Ron Silver: Herman Broder

★ Anjelica Huston: Tamara Broder

★ Lena Olin: Masha

★ Malgorzata Zajaczkowska: Yadwiga

★ Alan King: Rabbi Lembeck

Awards

★ The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including two nominations in the Best Supporting Actress category for Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin and a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky.

See also

★ List of Holocaust films

Source

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