Molly Picon plays a Yiddish cinderella in this film set in Poland's textile hub, Lodz.  Condemned to a life of shopping, schlepping, cooking and cleaning, she dreams of falling in love one day.  In the meantime, she's the "Macher" to go to when something needs to be done, whether it's matchmaking or pulling someone's chestnuts out of a hot flame.  Innocent as she is, Molly's not beyond dreaming of rubbing elbows with the other side of Jewish Lodz:  the fashionably dressed young men and women on the way up; having fun in nightclubs; and maneuvering her way among the shadier members of the community.  Finally, there's the handsome musician across the street.  I hope you like kittens, because the romantic finale must've been composed with cat lovers in mind. 

DVD-R is in Yiddish with hard-encoded English subtitles.  Approx. 94 mins.  See film sample for audio and video quality.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SWITCHABLE (SOFT) SUBTITLES WILL NOT SHOW UP WHEN VIEWING THE SAMPLE BELOW.  IF YOU SEE SUBTITLES, THEN THEY ARE HARD-ENCODED (meaning, they cannot be turned off when viewing the film):