Jolly Paupers (original title in Yiddish: פריילעכע קבצנים, romanized: Di freylekhe kabtsonim; title in Polish: Weseli biedacy)[1] is a 1937 Yiddish-language black and white comedy film shot in Interwar Poland by Kinor film company [de; pl; ru] in 1937.
It was directed by Léon Jeannot [fr] and Zygmunt Turkow and starred the popular Polish comic duo Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher.
[2] Shumacher and Dzigan play a pair of optimistic schlemiels, watchmaker Naftali and tailor Kopl from a shtetl, who find a depression soaked with spilled kerosene and think they struck oil.
Don’t forget that with this dinner the idea was not to make an impression on [oystsufaynen] anybody, but to succeed with the Master of the Universe, upon Whose will the entire happiness of the young couple depends.
At the dinner, poor people from the surrounding shtetls convened, among whom one could find usually also comic talents, merry beggars [freylikhe kabtsonim], who wanted to show off their stuff and thus regaled the entire crowd [oylem].