Enemies, a Love Story is a 1989 film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the novel Enemies, a Love Story () by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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 along with their two children, comes to New York.

Cast

• Ron Silver as Herman Broder
• Anjelica Huston as Tamara Broder
• Lena Olin as Masha
• Margaret Sophie Stein as Yadwiga
• Alan King as Rabbi Lembeck
• Judith Malina as Masha's mother
• Elya Baskin as Yasha Kobik
• Paul Mazursky as Leon Tortshiner
• 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

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