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It is just before World War I and millions of Eastern European shtetl Jews have immigrated to New York's Lower East Side. The sweatshops in which they work and the tenements in which they live are fertile ground for romantic intrigue, struggles of the garment workers' union movement, and the clash between old world values and new world dreams. The legendary Yiddish stage actor Maurice Schwartz is brilliant as Uncle Moses, the benevolent despot among his uprooted lansmen, whose passion for Masha, the tailor's daughter, is thwarted by circumstances beyond his control. UNCLE MOSES has everything you could want from a film: pathos, comedy, great wedding sequences, a climactic strike, and surprising twists.
