In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Directed by Barbra Streisand
musical
studies
disguise
unhappiness
boys' school
woman director
Rank
#23 in 1983·#2553 overall
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IMDB
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Letterboxd
3.6 / 5
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Cast
Barbra Streisand
Yentl
Mandy Patinkin
Avigdor
Amy Irving
Hadass
Nehemiah Persoff
Rebbe Mendel
Steven Hill
Reb Alter Vishkower
Allan Corduner
Shimmele
David de Keyser
Rabbi Zalman
Bernard Spear
Tailor
Doreen Mantle
Mrs. Shaemen
Lynda Baron
Peshe
Miriam Margolyes
Sarah
Ian Sears
David
Crew
Barbra Streisand
Director
Barbra Streisand
Screenplay
Michel Legrand
Original Music Composer
Terry Rawlings
Editor
David Watkin
Director of Photography
Barbra Streisand
Producer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author
Alan Bergman
Lyricist
Marilyn Bergman
Lyricist
Michel Legrand
Songs
Peter MacDonald
Camera Operator
Popular Reviews
114 reviews
Summer
10.0★ · 05/03/26
As a young Jewish girl, this movie really shaped me. Seeing it for the first time, I fell in love with Avigdor. It also made me question and think about gender and gender roles.
As a young Jewish girl, this movie really shaped me. Seeing it for the first time, I fell in love with Avigdor. It also made me question and think about gender and gender roles.
Cade
8.0★ · 02/26/26
I can’t believe this film ripped of She’s The Man and replaced football with Jewish Studying
I can’t believe this film ripped of She’s The Man and replaced football with Jewish Studying
V
5.0★ · 01/26/26
This is such a strange film 💀💀💀 Mandy Patinkin is very beautiful though
This is such a strange film 💀💀💀 Mandy Patinkin is very beautiful though
bin
10.0★ · 01/21/26
misogyny so potent it turns you gay and ur bitches lesbian
misogyny so potent it turns you gay and ur bitches lesbian
caroline emery
6.0★ · 11/26/25
if i directed my own movie and starred in it, i would also be the only one singing every internal thought i have in it
if i directed my own movie and starred in it, i would also be the only one singing every internal thought i have in it
