The Magician of Lublin (film)

The Magician of Lublin is a 1979 film cowritten and directed by Menahem Golan. The film is based on The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The films title song was performed by Kate Bush.

Yasha is married to Esther Linda Bernstein, but he is rarely home in Lublin to see her and they have not been able to have any children. On the road, however, there are plenty of women to keep Yasha company. Among many others, there is the zaftig Zeftel Valerie Perrine and the Polish Catholic assistant, Magda Maia Danziger, who tours and performs with him. Magdas brother is Bolek Zachi Noy, who is incompetent and their mother is Elzbieta Shelley Winters, who is desperate. Magda herself, it transpires, is mentally unstable.But the great loves of Yashas life, and the great ambition of his love, are the aristocratic but poor widow, Emilia Louise Fletcher, whom he would marry and her daughter, Halina Lisa Welchel, whom he adores as if she were his own. But Halina is ill and needs medical care, that Emilia knows Yasha will never be able to provide so she must keep herself free to marry someone who can pay for the medical treatment her daughter needs. ........

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