Yentl

In a time when the world of study belonged only to men, there lived a girl who dared to ask..."why?"

In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

Music Drama Romance

Barbra Streisand

(Yentl)

Mandy Patinkin

(Avigdor)

Amy Irving

(Hadass)

Nehemiah Persoff

(Rebbe Mendel)

Steven Hill

(Reb Alter Vishkower)

Allan Corduner

(Shimmele)

Ruth Goring

(Esther Rachel)

David de Keyser

(Rabbi Zalman)

Bernard Spear

(Tailor)

Doreen Mantle

(Mrs. Shaemen)

Lynda Baron

(Peshe)

Jack Lynn

(Bookseller)

Anna Tzelniker

(Mrs. Kovner)

Miriam Margolyes

(Sarah)

Mary Henry

(Mrs. Jacobs)

Robbie Barnett

(Tailor's Assistant)

Ian Sears

(David)

Frank Baker

(Village Student)

Anthony Dean Rubeš

(Village Student)

Renata Buser

(Mrs. Shaemen's Daughter)

Kerry Shale

(Yeshiva Student)

Danny Brainin

(Yeshiva Student)

Gary Brown

(Yeshiva Student)

Jonathan Tafler

(Yeshiva Student)

Peter Whitman

(Yeshiva Student)

Teddy Kempner

(Yeshiva Student)

Norma Atallah

(Debra (uncredited))

Mark English

(Yeshiva Student (uncredited))

Milena Glogarová

(Woman on the Charles Bridge (uncredited))

Derek Lyons

(Yeshiva Student (uncredited))

Chris Parsons

(Scholar (uncredited))

Peter Ross-Murray

(Yeshiva Student (uncredited))

Beth Porter

(Hadass' maid (uncredited))