Leon Trystan

The Apartment Above (1937)

Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music, while the other is a younger man addicted to swing music. The niece of the older man arrives for a visit and gets into ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leon Trystan
CAST:  Eugeniusz Bodo  •  Helena Grossówna  •  Józef Orwid  •  Ludwik Sempoliński

Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music, while the other is a younger man addicted to swing music. The niece of the older man arrives for a visit and gets into ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leon Trystan
CAST:  Eugeniusz Bodo  •  Helena Grossówna  •  Józef Orwid  •  Ludwik Sempoliński

A Letter to Mama (1938)

One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion, this film tells the story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war World War II Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by severe poverty and the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Green  •  Leon Trystan
CAST:  Lucy Gehrman  •  Misha Gehrman  •  Gertrude Bulman

One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion, this film tells the story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war World War II Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by severe poverty and the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Green  •  Leon Trystan
CAST:  Lucy Gehrman  •  Misha Gehrman  •  Gertrude Bulman