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Kadosh ()

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Two sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society.
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Rivka
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Meïr
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Malka (as Meital Barda)
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Yossef (as Uri Ran-Klausner)
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Rav Shimon
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Elisheva (as Lea Koenig)
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Yaakov (as Sami Hori)
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Gynaecologist
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Uncle Shmouel
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Shireen Kadivar ...
Lexa
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Man in the bar (uncredited)

Directed by

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Amos Gitai

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Eliette Abecassis ... (written by) &
Amos Gitai ... (written by)

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Roberto Cicutto ... associate producer
Shuki Friedman ... line producer
Amos Gitai ... producer
Michel Propper ... producer
Laurent Thiry ... associate producer
Laurent Truchot ... associate producer

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Philippe Eidel
Louis Sclavis

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Renato Berta

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Monica Coleman
Kobi Netanel

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Yaron Yashinski ... trailer editor

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Levia Hon
Ilan Moscovitch

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Miguel Markin

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Laura Dinolesko ... (as Laura Dinulesco)

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Ziv Katanov ... makeup artist

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Saul Kleiman ... production manager

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Shai Gani ... assistant director

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Yoav Dahari ... property master
Ilan Moscovitch ... artistic advisor

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Alex Claude ... sound designer
François Fayard ... sound assistant / sound editor
Cyril Holtz ... re-recording mixer
Michel Kharat ... sound mixer

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Yaron Yashinski ... digital trailer effects

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Miki Berdougo ... best boy (as Berdougo Michael) / best boy
Philippe Cadeau ... gaffer (as Philip Cadeau)
Jean-Paul Toraille ... focus puller
Gaby Weismann ... second assistant camera

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Gadi Nemet ... script editor / script supervisor

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Vanessa Jerrom ... press

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Plot Summary

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? Written by

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Also Known As
  • 禁城之恋 (China, Mandarin title)
  • Kadosh - De hellige (Norway)
  • Кадош (Russia)
  • Kadosh - Abençoados (Brazil)
  • Sacré (Belgium, French title)
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  • 110 min
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Trivia Amos Gitai began shooting on February 2, 1999 and shot the majority of the sequences in continuity. He then edited his film at the rate of 18 hours per day, to send it in mid-April to Gilles Jacob, the president of the Cannes Film Festival, who selected it immediately. See more »
Goofs The scene where Yossef the zealot prays loudly for understanding the Torah is completely preposterous. An Orthodox Jew would always pray silently, even when alone. To pray in such a boorish manner would only invite ridicule. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in A History of Israeli Cinema (2009). See more »
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