Wandering Stars

adapted by Andrei Munteanu, after Sholem Aleichem

The production tells the story of a group of young Jews from a corner of the Bessarabian provinces who, spellbound by a travelling theatre company, leave their parents' home for the wide world to seek their fortune as artists. But life carries them ever further (Lvov, Vienna, London) not only from their native village but from their own past, which they part with, at first, quite carelessly. For that is the price success sometimes asks: giving up oneself. And while the central characters, Reizl and Leibl, fulfil their ambitions and their artistic destiny, their fame spreading everywhere, around them are many other artists whose aspirations will never come to anything. Is art a frivolous flight from life, or the way to truly reach the stars?

Director: Andrei Munteanu
Set and costume design: Puiu Antemir
Costumes: Unda Popp
Choreography: Galea Bobeicu

Isruel: Mircea Drîmbăreanu
Leia, Madam Zonenthal: Luana Stoica
Reizl: Alexandra Fasolă / Anka Levana
Beny Rafalovici: Mihai Ciucă
Reibl Rafalesco: Veaceslav Grosu
Albert Şciupak: Nicolae Călugărița
Şulem Meier Muravchik: Viorel Manole
Hoţmach: Marius Călugăriţa
Henrieta Schvalb: Geni Brenda
Isaac Şvalb: Darius Daradici
Breindale Kozak: Arabela Neazi
Madam Lewius: Cristina Cîrcei
Sure Bruche: Mirela Nicolau
Zlatke: Viorica Bantaş
Golda: Ecaterina Ţugulea
Haim: Mihai Prejban
Bella: Iolanda Covaci / Raluca Aprodu
Iţik: Richard Bovnoczki / Valentin Roșca
Marcela Embrich: Maia Morgenstern / Anka Levana / Natalie Ester
Grișa Stel Mach, Șimen Duvid: Mircea Dragoman
The Mute Neighbour: Natalie Ester
Ben Gorgl: Nicolae Botezatu
Walk-on: Alexandru Vasu, Constantin Hitianu, Ștefan Bragadireanu, Adi Tănăsoiu, Victor Căpraru, Florea Cîrstea, Liliana Neacşu, Elena Filofi, Florica Banciu, Michaela Zibileanu, Carmen Vieaşu, Ioana Manea, Olimpia Lazăr

Genre

Drama

Language

Yiddish (with Romanian surtitles)

Running time

125 minutes (no interval)

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