George Roland

George Roland (1881-1961) was a Yiddish language film director and editor of the 1930s.

[6] According to various government documents, George was already working as a director in the film industry during the First World War.

Roland used innovative techniques of re-cutting and re-editing existing films for many of his 1930s works.

[7] And then, in 1933's Avrom Ovino (Abraham our Patriarch AKA The Wandering Jew), he cut together various short Bible films with new narrations and scenes set in Nazi Germany, and then re-edited a 1924 Polish film Tkies Kaf by Zygmunt Turkow and released it as Dem Rebins Koyekh and A Vilna Legend.

[7] Despite the derivative nature of these films, The Wandering Jew in particular received positive coverage and praise for the quality of Jacob Ben-Ami's acting.