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Release Date: 1999

Cast: Leah Koenig, Yoram Hattab, Noa Dori, Uri Ran Klauzner, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Yael Abecassis, Samuel Calderon, Meital Barda, Shireen Kadivar, Sami Huri

Categories: Movies, World Cinema, Romantic Drama, Romance Film, Feminist Film, Drama Film, Family Drama

Kadosh (קדוש) (lit. Sacred) is a 1999 film by Israeli director Amos Gitai. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Kadosh is a bleak drama about the plight of women in Haredi society. In the opening scene, Meir (Yoram Hattab), a young Talmudic scholar, thanks God in his morning prayers for not being born a woman. At first, the marriage of Meir and his adoring wife, Rivka (Yael Abecassis), appears tender and idyllic, but as the day progresses it becomes clear that Meir is obsessed with the fact that he is childless after ten years of marriage. Rivka's younger sister, Malka,... MORE

Kadosh (קדוש) (lit. Sacred) is a 1999 film by Israeli director Amos Gitai. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Kadosh is a bleak drama about the plight of women in Haredi society. In the opening scene, Meir (Yoram Hattab), a young Talmudic scholar, thanks God in his morning prayers for not being born a woman. At first, the marriage of Meir and his adoring wife, Rivka (Yael Abecassis), appears tender and idyllic, but as the day progresses it becomes clear that Meir is obsessed with the fact that he is childless after ten years of marriage. Rivka's younger sister, Malka, marries Yosef in a match arranged by their parents, but loves Yaakov, a rock singer, who has abandoned the religious community. LESS