OnOctober6thof1927theWarnerBros.production"TheJazzSinger"haditspremiereinNewYorkCity:Thefirsttalkiewithdialoguerevolutionizedthefilmindustryandmarkedtheendofsilentfilms.ThestoryaroundtheJewishprotagonistJakieRabinowitz,tornbetweentraditionandmodernspirit,andthesuccessofthefilmareinseparablyconnectedwiththeartistAlJolson.Thefilmdeliversaninsightintothesocialandtechnicaldevelopmentsofthetime,aswellasintoJolson`spersonalbackground;ahistoryoftheimmigrants`searchforidentityinthe"NewWorld"atthebeginningofthe20thcentury.