Other Titles • Enemies: A Love Story • Feinde - Geschichte einer Liebe (1989)
Synopses for Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
1.
Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote often about despair and redemption, the subjects of his novel on which this Paul Mazursky film is based. Ron Silver plays a Holocaust survivor who has moved to America and married the Polish gentile who hid him from the Nazis. An intellectual, he is not satisfied with this simple peasant woman and so he has an affair with a sultry émigré (Lena Olin). His life is then made more complicated by the reappearance of his wife from the old country (Anjelica Huston), who he thought had died in the Nazi death camps. Mazursky and his terrific cast find the pain, irony, and sad humor in this material, capturing Singer's tone and bringing it to life. --Marshall Fine
2.
"Richly satisfying. A superbly balanced cast." -Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
The Coney Island rides near Herman Broder's home spin dizzily, but it's Herman (Ron Silver) who's spinning out of control. Three women are in his life. And he may end up simultaneously married to each.
Deftly co-adapting Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel about Holocaust survivors coping with love and memory in postwar New York, Paul Mazursky helms this acclaimed tale that won him the New York Film Critics Best Director Award. Wed out of gratitude to the peasant (Margaret Sophie Stein) who hid him form the Nazis, Herman carries on a mad affair with a concentration camp survivor (New York Critics Best Supporting Actress choice Lena Olin) and miraculously finds the snappish wife (National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Award winner Anjelica Huston) he thought had died in the war is very much alive.
Mooviees.com is not the official site for this film.
All editorial views and opinions expressed here are for entertainment purposes only.
<>
Movie Database
In Theaters
