Ani Ohev Otach Rosa
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| Original title | Ani Ohev Otach Rosa / אני אוהב אותך רוזה |
| Country of production | Israel |
| original language | Hebrew |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 91 minutes |
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| Director | Moshe Mizrahi |
| script | Moshe Mizrahi |
| production | Menahem Golan |
| music | Dov Seltzer |
| camera | Adam Greenberg |
| cut | Dov Hoenig |
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Ani Ohev Otach Rosa ( Hebrew : I love you, Rosa ) is an Israeli love story by Moshé Mizrahi from 1972.
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The present: Eleven-year-old Nessim and his grandmother Rosa visit the grave of their husband Nessim, who died 40 years ago. Rosa promises to come to him soon. A little later she is dying. She says that her grandson reminds her a lot of her husband, after whom he is named.
The year 1887: The Sephardic Rosa was just 20 years old when her husband Rafael died without having fathered a child. According to the law , a brother of her husband has to marry her in order to carry the family name on. Rafael's brother David is already married and has four children. Rafael's younger brother Nessim is just 11 years old and is therefore out of the question as a husband. Nessim, however, wants to marry Rosa and says that he loves her. For this he receives a slap in the face from his mother.
Atypically for her time, Rosa earns her own living by working in the bathhouse during the day and as a seamstress at night. Her friend Jamila tries to set her up with craftsman Eli, but Rosa refuses because she knows that she is legally promised Nessim as long as he is ready to marry. One night he fled to her because he despised his own mother. When she wants to bring Nessim home the next day, the rabbi has to intervene. Because Nessim wants to live with Rosa, she doesn't mind raising him, and David is also relieved to have one less child in the house, so Nessim is allowed to stay with Rosa.
Rosa encourages him to study and rejects his confessions of love because he is still a child. At the same time, she does not give in to Eli's recruitment either, but gets him to take Nessim up as an apprentice at the age of 13. Nessim is studying hard, knowing that this is the only way to earn money and that in the end, Rosa can also be married. However, as the months go by, growing up becomes difficult. He begins to rebel and comes home late from gambling. When Rosa rebukes him, he replies that she is not his mother. Rosa pretends to throw him out of the house and he collapses. Later, when he was doing the housework, the women on the street ridiculed him as a "girl". At the same time, he is deeply horrified when a friend takes him to a brothel, where a woman offers herself to him. When Nessim receives his first job shortly afterwards and is paid, he becomes cocky, throws Rosa the money, claims to be an adult and instructs Rosa to bring him food. She reacts coolly: He has changed to such an extent that she no longer wants him by her side. Nessim leaves her house in awe.
Five years later, Nessim is of legal age and has a girlfriend. A woman reads him the future from the cup and explains that although he has a woman by his side, his heart belongs to someone else. Nessim returns to Rosa and pretends to visit her on behalf of a friend. But she recognizes him and falls into his arms, she has never forgotten him. The next morning she explains to him that she still cannot marry him. He is the man who is prescribed to her by law. However, you want to decide for yourself. With a heavy heart he agrees to renounce his marriage rights. However, Rosa does not complete the formal renunciation ceremony "Chalitza" in front of the rabbi, but leaves the room prematurely. She withdraws and Nessim breaks down lovesick. Only many months later does he go to see her, emaciated with pain. Now she tells him about a young woman who became a widow. She tells him their story together, which ends with this woman asking him to be her husband. They both happily embrace.
In the present, Rosa sees her end coming. She sits up on her bed one last time and calls Nessim's name before she dies.
Religious background
The basic conflict in Ani Ohev Otach Rosa is based in the Levirate , which is written down as a law in Deuteronomy 25 : 5-10 LUT . It says, among other things:
“If two brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased should not become the wife of a strange man outside the family. Her brother-in-law should take care of her, marry her and marry her in law. [...] But if the man does not want to marry his sister-in-law and his sister-in-law goes up to the elders at the gate and says: My brother-in-law does not want his brother-in-law to exist in Israel and has therefore refused to marry me! the elders of his city then summon him and confront him, but he sticks to his demeanor and declares: I don't want to marry her! Spitting face and calling out: This is how you treat someone who doesn't build his brother's house. "
The quote precedes the film. Rosa breaks off the "Chalitza" ceremony when she is supposed to symbolically pull the Chalitza shoe off Nessim's foot in front of the elders, and leaves.
production
Ani Ohev Otach Rosa is based on the life of Moshé Mizrahi's mother. It was the last film that the film producers Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus made in Israel. They then went to Hollywood, where they took over the production company Cannon Films . It was the only feature film in which Gabi Otterman took a role. As a young Nessim, he can be seen in both the present and the past. Rabbi Gunter Hirschberg acted as the narrator of the film .
The film premiered on May 10, 1972 at the Cannes International Film Festival .
Awards
At the 1972 Cannes International Film Festival, the film was screened in the competition for the Palme d'Or . Ani Ohev Otach Rosa was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film in 1973 .
Web links
- Ani Ohev Otach Rosa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spelling according to the subtitles of the English version, which corresponds to the pronunciation in the original. In the network next to "Nessim" (for example at the British Film Institute ) also as "Nissim" (Hebrew for "miracle") to be found.
- ↑ Ani Ohev Otach Rosa on jewishfilm.org
- ↑ Ani Ohev Otach Rosa on film.at
- ↑ Ani Ohev Otach Rosa on festival-cannes.com