Kadosh (1999)

Kadosh (1999)

Kadosh movie storyline. 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?

Kadosh (Hebrew: קדוש) (lit., Sacred) is a 1999 film by Israeli director Amos Gitai. It stars Yaël Abecassis, Yoram Hattab, Meital Barda, Uri Klauzner, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Lea Koenig, Sami Huri, Rivka Michaeli, Samuel Calderon, Noa Dori, Shireen Kadivar and Amos Gitai. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

Kadosh Movie Poster (1999)

Kadosh (1999)

Directed by: Amos Gitai
Starring: Yaël Abecassis, Yoram Hattab, Meital Barda, Uri Klauzner, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Lea Koenig, Sami Huri, Rivka Michaeli, Samuel Calderon, Noa Dori, Shireen Kadivar, Amos Gitai
Screenplay by: Eliette Abecassis, Amos Gita
Production Design by: Miguel Markin
Cinematography by: Renato Berta
Film Editing by: Monica Coleman, Kobi Netanel
Costume Design by: Laura Dinolesko
Art Direction by: Yoav Dahari
Makeup Department: Ziv Katanov
Music by: Philippe Eidel, Louis Sclavis
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Ocean Film
Release Date: June 10, 1999

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