Enemies, A Love Story (film)

Enemies, A Love Story
original film poster
Directed by	Paul Mazursky
Screenplay by	Roger L. Simon Paul Mazursky
Produced by	Paul Mazursky
Starring	Anjelica Huston Ron Silver Lena Olin Margaret Sophie Stein Alan King
Cinematography	Fred Murphy
Edited by	Stuart H. Pappé
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Production company	Morgan Creek Productions
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	December 13, 1989 (1989-12-13)
Running time	119 min.
Language	English
Box office	$7,754,571

Enemies, A Love Story is a 1989 film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the 1966 novel Enemies, A Love Story ([Sonim, di Geshichte fun a Liebe] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) by Isaac Bashevis Singer and starred Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin and Margaret Sophie Stein.

Plot

Set in New York City in 1949, the story follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. Throughout the war he survived hidden in a hayloft, taken care of by his Gentile Polish servant, Yadwiga, whom he later takes as his wife in America. Meanwhile, he has a passionate affair with another Holocaust survivor, Masha. To Yadwiga, he poses as a traveling book-salesman despite the fact he is a ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia and perpetual desperation, made more complicated when his first wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to have been killed in the Holocaust comes to New York.

Cast

• Ron Silver as Herman Broder
• Anjelica Huston as Tamara Luria-Broder
• Lena Olin as Masha Bloch-Tortshiner
• Margaret Sophie Stein as Yadwiga, Herman's maid
• Alan King as Rabbi Lembeck
• Judith Malina as Shifra Puah Bloch, Masha's mother
• Elya Baskin as Yasha Kobik
• Paul Mazursky as Leon Tortshiner, Masha's ex-husband
• Phil Leeds as Pesheles
• Rita Karin as Mrs. Schreier
• Zypora Spaisman as Sheva Haddas

Awards

• The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including two nominations in the Best Supporting Actress category for Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin and a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky.

See also

• List of Holocaust films

External links

• Enemies, A Love Story at IMDb
• Enemies, A Love Story at Box Office Mojo
• Enemies, A Love Story at Rotten Tomatoes