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10 June 1999 (Israel)
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Two sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Yaël Abecassis | ... | Rivka | |
| Yoram Hattab | ... | Meïr | |
| Meital Barda | ... | Malka | |
| Uri Klauzner | ... | Yossef (as Uri Ran-Klausner) | |
| Yussuf Abu-Warda | ... | Rav Shimon | |
| Leah Koenig | ... | Elisheva (as Lea Koenig) | |
| Sami Huri | ... | Yaakov | |
| Rivka Michaeli | ... | Gynaecologist | |
| Samuel Calderon | ... | Uncle Shmouel | |
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| Noa Dori | ... | Noa | |
| Shireen Kadivar | ... | Lexa | |
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Singapore:M18 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Norway:11 |
Singapore:PG (cut) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
Argentina:13
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Featured in Historia Shel Hakolnoah Israeli (2009)
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Mozambique
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I would agree that this film progresses at a very slow pace but the story about the secretive world of orthodox Judaism is interesting. In spite of being traditionalist Hassidism is relatively modern to the long history of the Jewish religion being formed amongst Eastern European Jewry in the 18th century, partly as a reaction to anti-semitism and secularism.
The director Amos Gitai has taken on a very difficult task in portraying this sect of Judaism. What is put across well is the incompatibility of conservative traditionalism with a secular society and how suffocating and repressive religious strictures can be. A good story but one that could have shown in more detail the contrasts between the reality of secular Israeli society and the closed world of mysticism.