The Cantor's Son

Synopsis

This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an "anti-Jazz Singer." Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he is "discovered" and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart.

Main Cast

Moyshe Oysher

Saul 'Shloimele' Reichman

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Florence Weiss

Helen

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Judith Abarbanel

Rivke

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Michael Rosenberg

Yossel Lutchik

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Juda Bleich

Cantor Zanvel Reichman

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Bertha Guttenberg

Malke Reichman

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Isidore Cashier

W.H. Rosovitch

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Vicki Marcus

Saul as a young boy

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Ilya Motyleff Sidney M. Goldin
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