An ascetic-quixotic yeshiva student sets out in search of"true Jews"-those whose spirit is the more profound for theirconnection to the land, unadulterated by the evils of city life. Hefinds that and more, as he becomes the quarry of two farm families whowant him for their children's tutor. Quite in spite of himself thedreamy pedant (Michael Goldstein) inspires a variety of desiresincluding a lust for learning in the irrepressible Tsine (Helen Beverly)and her wide-eyed brother Avrem-Yankl (Herschel Bernardi). Theaterdirector/actor Jacob Ben-Ami is credited with giving the film its"authentic flavor." On the other hand, who but Edgar G.Ulmer-Hollywood's stylish, expressionist "King of theBs"-could have transformed New Jersey locations and a New Yorkstudio set into bucolic-rustic Old Russia, with its delicately balancedrelationships? "Green Fields celebrates a vanished world of tribalwholeness and stubborn piety?. Sweet but unsentimental, the film exudesa dreamypantheism unique in Yiddish Film." (J. Hoberman)