Rating: IIA
Duration: 90mins
Content:
Maurice, Sami, Simon, Elie and Edouard are four unknown actors in their late thirties?.still waiting for their big break. One day, Grichenberg, the famous American director, comes to Paris looking for the lead role in his Yiddish adaptation of the Merchant of Venice. Maurice gets the part ! It is the breakthrough he has been waiting for all these years. He rushes home to proudly announce the big news to his wife Perla. But Perla also has news for him : she is very ill. Unfortunately, the part eventually goes to a famous American star. Maurice doesn?t have the heart to tell Perla?.With his friends? help, he will go all the way to make his wife believe that he still has the part, and will end up playing the role of his life to protect her?
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