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Kadosh

1999-1h 50min
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6.0 / 10 25

The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The yeshiva's rabbi, who is Meir's father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka: "a barren woman is no woman." Rivka's sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too secular. The rabbi arranges Malka's marriage to Yossef, whose agitation when fulfilling religious duties approaches the grotesque. Can the sisters sort out their hearts' desires within this patriarchal world? If not, have they any other options?

Directed by Amos Gitai

Writers Amos Gitai Éliette Abécassis

Stars Yaël Abecassis Yoram Hattab Meital Barda

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Yaël Abecassis's picture in the cast

Yaël Abecassis

Rivka
Yoram Hattab's picture in the cast

Yoram Hattab

Meïr
Meital Barda's picture in the cast

Meital Barda

Malka
Uri Klauzner's picture in the cast

Uri Klauzner

Yossef

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