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Yentl (1983)

Yentl (1983)

Barbra Streisand directs, produces and stars in the iconic musical drama Yentl, about a girl who dresses as a boy to secretly study the Torah and finds herself embroiled in a love-triangle.

Nov 12. 2pm

Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick

Barbra Streisand stars in this musical drama that she co-produced, co-directed and co-wrote. In a complex and passionate tale concerning confusion of gender and of desire, Singer’s eponymous Yentl The Yeshiva Boy is a girl who wants desperately to study Torah and Talmud, and did so clandestinely with her father. After he dies, forbidden by Jewish law to continue, she masquerades as a boy and enters a yeshiva in a town where nobody knows her. Here, she/he is in new and treacherous territory, creating turmoil for herself and her new friends by falling in love with a fellow student (a gorgeous Mandy Patinkin) and marrying his beloved. Can Yentl escape disaster and have both scholarship and romance?

  • Rating

    PG

  • Country

    United States

  • Runtime

    133 Mins

  • Director

    Barbra Streisand

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