The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a film adaptation of the 2007 best-selling Michael Chabon novel of the same name. Set in an alternate reality, the detective story follows Jewish settlers forced to live in Alaska following the fall of Israel in 1948.
Fast Facts
- Director/Screenwriters: Joel and Ethan Coen
- Producer: Scott Rudin, Joel and Ethan Coen
- Rudin bought film rights to Yiddish five years ago
- Distributor: Columbia Pictures
- Another adaptation of a Chabon novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, is expected to be released in 2009
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