Enemies: A Love Story Page #3

Synopsis: Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three women - his current wife, a passionate affair with a married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors, who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Paul Mazursky
Production: Media Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
R
Year:
1989
119 min
181 Views


anything better.

And what sense is there

in doing the dirty work

for that swindler of a rabbi?

- At least become a rabbi.

Swindle in your own name.

- I can't do that.

- Here's the compote. It's delicious.

- Thanks.

The truth is, you're still

hiding in that hayloft.

Yep. That's the truth.

This is very good.

This is... This is very good.

[Train Rumbling By]

[Rumbling Rises In Intensity]

[Train Wheels Screeching]

[Panting]

[Moaning]

I don't believe your peasant

is really as cold as you say she is.

- Well, don't believe it.

- What about your first wife?

Did you love her?

- Tamara is dead.

- Suppose I were to die?

Or commit suicide?

How long would you

remember me?

How long would you wait

before finding another?

Just this once...

be honest.

How long would you wait?

I would never

have anyone again.

- Is that the truth?

- Yes, you devil.

The whole truth.

[Both Laughing]

- [Laughing]

- Suppose... Suppose that there

were no men left on the Earth.

- Mm-hmm.

- Would you do it with a woman?

Sure. Why not?

Would you do it with a man?

- No. Absolutely not.

Out of the question.

- Why?

- Why? No.

- You know why?

- Because then I wouldn't

find my other half.

- [Laughs]

But an animal...

[Moaning]

- [Both Laughing]

- You get me a nice sheep or a goat...

- Mmm! That's another story, you know.

- [Laughing]

- You ever do it with a guard?

- Never.

Not that

they weren't interested.

Of course, there was

this lieutenant at Dachau.

No. Never.

Never, never.

It's time to go to work,

Herman.

- Before work comes pleasure.

- I have to go.

I have to go.

[Mumbles]

[Both Laughing]

## [Humming]

Yadzia?

Let's take a holiday.

[Applauding]

[Speaking Polish]

[Replies In Polish]

Want one pink one.

[Bell Rings]

- [Man] All right,

we got a balloon going up.

- [Chattering]

- [Talking, Indistinct]

- [Shouting, Indistinct]

[Herman]

Hit the hole! Hit the hole!

- [Bell Ringing]

- Yeah! I won! I won!

We have a winner!

We have a winner!

Mister, you have a winner!

All right!

We got a winner!

[Screaming]

[Laughing, Screaming]

[Chattering]

I'm so happy.

So lucky.

God himself

has sent you to me.

[Siren Blaring]

- [People Screaming]

- Herman, please.

I want to become a Jew.

I want to have your child.

[Barking]

- [Laughing]

- They drag animals here

from all over the world...

- and put them in cages.

- My cage was not

this comfortable.

Yeah.

- I have to call Yadwiga.

- Call her.

- Don't be angry.

- Call her.

But if you love me,

you'll take me to the Catskills

for my vacation...

just like you promised.

I promise.

I-I must stay here

in Baltimore another day.

[Animal Roars]

Uh, in a bookstore.

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Roger L. Simon

This article is about the writer and political commentator; not to be confused with the columnist and journalist Roger Simon.Roger Lichtenberg Simon (born November 22, 1943) is an American novelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter. He was formerly CEO of PJ Media (formerly known as Pajamas Media) and is now its CEO Emeritus. He is the author of ten novels, including the Moses Wine detective series, seven produced screenplays and two non-fiction books. He has served as president of the West Coast branch of PEN, a member of the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, and was on the faculty of the American Film Institute and the Sundance Institute. His many journalistic articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Commentary, and City Journal, among others. Mr. Simon has also been a Hoover Institute Media Fellow. more…

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