Posted by admin in Musicals/Performing ArtsAug 20th, 2007 | no responses
Israeli-American actor Mike Burstyn won an Israeli Academy Award for the title role in the musical drama HERSHELE. Hershele is an educated European immigrant who lives in a poor rural neighborhood in Israel. He has been classically trained as a musician, and in an effort to connect with the townspeople he gives music lessons to the local children. They rapidly develop into a talented orchestra, but living in a poor neighborhood, they are unable to draw the same attention as children's groups in other places. Now Hershele and his musician students must find a way to force the rest of the country to take notice. HERSHELE is an Israeli MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS, a film that dramatizes the power of music and the student-teacher relationship.
