I Have Sinned (Al Khet)

Released in 1936, I Have Sinned (Al Khet) was the first Yiddish sound film made in Poland, and marks the film debut of the Polish-Jewish comedy team Dzigan and Schumacher ( known as the Yiddish Abbot and Costello). Unseen for generations until its new rescue and restoration by The National Center for Jewish Film, I Have Sinned (Al Khet) blends melodrama with a bissel of comedy and music.

Set in a small Jewish town during World War I, the film follows Esther (Rachel Holzer), a rabbi’s daughter who abandons her child after her lover dies in battle and the Russians invade. Complications unfold as Esther’s friends played by Dzigan and Schumacher attempt to reunite mother and daughter years later.

• “No film paints a more detailed picture of life in 1930’s interwar Yiddishland. The rich Polish Yiddish is delicious. As a snapshot of mid-1930’s Polish Jewry, it’s extraordinary”. The Forward

Runtime: 90 minutes.

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