A Tickle in the Heart (Dir. Stefan Schwietert, Germany/Switzerland/USA 1996)
The award-winning documentary about klezmer music legends, The Epstein Brothers, recipients of the prestigious 1998 National Heritage Fellowship from the US National Endowment for the Arts. Co-written by Joel Rubin based on his research with the brothers.
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“Affects you like a sweet, potent wine, leaving you enlightened, and sated”
(The New Yorker)
“Completely charming!”
(Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times)
“A delightful surprise!… Inspired!”
(Boston Herald)
“Irresistible music… Irresistibly earthy personalities! As spicy, filling and homey as your grandmother’s lovingly prepared old-country meals!”
(Michael Medved, New York Post)
“One from the heart! Rivets the eye with unusual visual riches”
(The New York Times)
“The most compelling portrait of this Diaspora and the Klezmer renaissance flourishing today in the Americas and in Europe is Joel Rubin’s documentary film [about] the Fabulous Epstein Brothers”
(Atilla Csampai in New Edition/Winter & Winter, 1999)