A Tickle in the Heart

A Tickle in the Heart
Max, Willie and Julie Epstein were the Kings of Klezmer Music. They began their career as "The Epstein Brothers" 60 years ago in New York playing at the celebrations of Jewish immigrants, which often lasted for days. Their music, like their audiences, came from Eastern Europe.

The songs were as often loose and joyous as they were sentimental and
sad. Today, the Epstein brothers live in America′s retirement paradise,
Florida. Together with their old audience, they have withdrawn to the
mild climate of "God′s waiting room". The brothers once believed that,
after the Jew′s assimilation in the "American way of life", their
neighbors were the last Klezmer generation and themselves the last
Klezmer stars. But a few years ago began the revival of Klezmer music
and so also the revival of the Epstein Brothers. The kings of Klezmer
music came back and this time they even took the famous concert halls
of Europe and the United States by storm. And if "klezmorim" were once
seen as on the same level as day laborers and vagabonds, now they are
lionized as artists. A belated success - and no one is more surprised
about it than the Epstein Brothers themselves ...

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH