Kadosh
August Auteurs
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1h 51m
Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 1999 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Uri Ran Klauzner, Yaël Abecassis, Yoram Hattub
Amos Gitai’s impassioned feminist polemic selected for the 1999 Cannes Film Festival is set in an ultra-Orthodox enclave of Jerusalem and follows a pious woman who is rejected by her community when her marriage proves childless. Meanwhile, her beloved sister is in love with a young man who has fled the community to lead a secular life.
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