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?
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Yael Abecassis | Rivka |
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Yoram Hattab | Meïr |
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Meital Berdah | Malka |
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Uri Klauzner | Yossef |
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Yussuf Abu-Warda | Rav Shimon |
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Leah Koenig | Elisheva |
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Sami Huri | Yaakov |
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Rivka Michaeli | Gynaecologist |
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Samuel Calderon | Uncle Shmouel |
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Noa Dori | Noa |
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Shireen Kadivar | Lexa |
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Amos Gitai | Man in the bar |
| Director | Amos Gitai |
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| Writer | Eliette Abecassis, Amos Gitai | |
| Producer | Roberto Cicutto, Shuki Freedman, Amos Gitai, Michel Propper, Laurent Thiry, Laurent Truchot | |
| Musician | Philippe Eidel, Louis Sclavis | |
| Photography | Renato Berta | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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