![]() With cinematic sweep and tender observation, Sacha Lamb presents a totally original drama about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power of love to change and endure. ![]() The streets are far from paved with gold. ![]() Corrupt officials, cruel mob bosses, murderers, poverty. This lasted roughly from 1880 until the early 1920s. Medical exams (and demons) at Ellis Island. When the Angels Left the Old Country is a fairytale grounded in history, specifically what’s known in American Jewish history as the Great Wave of Immigration. When one of those young emigrants goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her.Īlong the way the angel and demon encounter humans in need of their help, including Rose Cohen, whose best friend (and the love of her life) has abandoned her to marry a man, and Malke Shulman, whose father died mysteriously on his way to America.īut there are obstacles ahead of them as difficult as what they've left behind. The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. ![]() Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl). ![]()
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