The Yellow Ticket

Eugen Illés, Victor Janson

Silent film with live music accompaniment!

A rarely screened silent about a young Jewish woman (Pola Negri) who hides her identity in order to study medicine, enlivened by an exciting new musical score by Alicia Svigals with live musical accompaniment by Alicia Svigals (violin) and Marilyn Lerner (piano).

DIRECTOR
Eugen Illés, Victor Janson
YEAR
1918
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
63 minutes
LANGUAGE
English
START DATE
January 10, 2013

Silent film with live music accompaniment!

Enlivened by an exciting new score by Alicia Svigals, The Yellow Ticket tells the story of a young Jewish woman (played by the great Pola Negri) who hides her identity in order to study medicine and is coerced into prostitution to pay the rent. The film addresses ethnic and religious discrimination, human trafficking, and poverty in startlingly progressive terms. Live musical accompaniment by Marilyn Lerner (piano) and Alicia Svigals (violin).

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