ESTHER KAHN DVD

Movie Description:
Summer Phoenix delivers a moving performance as Esther Kahn, a young Jewish migrant living in London at the end of the 19th century. The familyworks together in a sweatshop, but Esther is the weak linkin the oper- ation. She is slow and stubborn, she never has an opinion on anything andnever feels anything for anyone- she is like a stone. She decides to become an actress, because it is only in the theaterthat she awakens. It is on thestage that, one evening, she breaks through twenty years ofsuppressed life,and really begins to live.