Talk:Durkh trern

Film descriptions

What a freaking pity that not a single reviewer I found so far watched the film carefully enough. Absolutely everybody messes with the plot miserably (so cannot pinch it from the internets :-). I watched it myself several to get a clear idea and tomorrow I will try to write it up. By the way, there is nothing from Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son, only dying cantor and Motele becoming orphan. Also the film reminded me that I keep forgetting to write up about Luftmenschen/Luftgesheft, which are a significant part of the plot, here and in Freylikhe Kabtzonim. This characterization of events was missed by reviewers (and is not coming from the two S-A works) --Altenmann >talk 02:56, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

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Zlodeyevke (Thieves' Town) (btw we may or may not know that Moshkeleh the Thief brings down Ivan Kurke, “the Goliath of Zlodeyevke,” in a single blow ) and Kozodoyevke (Goat Milkers' Town)). from novel: "There was a man in Zlodeyevke, a shtetl that is situated in the vicinity of Mazepevke, not far away from Khaplopovitsh and Kozodoyevke, between Yampeoli and Strishtsh, exactly on the road that leads from Pishi-Yabede via Petshi-Khvost to Tetrevetz and from there to Yehupetz, and the name of the man is Shimen-Eliyohu" .... "exactly halfway between Zlodeyevke and Kozodoyevke, there was a rustic inn called the Oak Tavern. And this tavern excreted an irresistible force. It was a magnet, drawing on all the draymen and all the travelers going from one shtetl to the other. You just had to stop at the Oak Tavern, if only for a minute or two! This mystery has never been solved. Some people say that Dodi, the tavernkeeper, was a very charming and hospitable man – if you had the money, that is, you could get a proper schnapps and the finest snacks."

David G. Roskies, “Call It Jewspeak: On the Evolution of Speech in Modern Yiddish Writing,” Poetics Today, vol. 35, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 232-301

Dos meserl

here it is claimed that the film also incorporated and The Pocket-Knife (Yiddish: דאָס מעסערעל, romanized: Dos meserl) story. But I fail to see slightest traces of it in the film. Not to say that the title is ignorantly translated via Russian as "The Dagger". --Altenmann >talk 07:53, 21 August 2025 (UTC)