Kadosh

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Movie
German title Kadosh
Original title Kadosh
Country of production Israel
original language Hebrew
Publishing year 1999
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Amos Gitai
script Éliette Abécassis ,
Amos Gitai
production Amos Gitai,
Michel Propper
music Philippe Eidel ,
Louis Sclavis
camera Renato Berta
cut Monica Coleman ,
Kobi Netanel
occupation
  • Yaël Abecassis : Rivka
  • Yoram Hattab: Meïr
  • Meital Barda: Malka
  • Uri Klauzner: Yossef
  • Yussuf Abu-Warda: Rav Shimon
  • Leah Koenig: Elisheva
  • Sami Huri: Yaakov
  • Rivka Michaeli: gynecologist
  • Samuel Calderon: Shmouel
  • Noa Dori: Noa
  • Shireen Kadivar: Lexa

Kadosh ( Hebrew קדוש 'Holy' ) is a 1999 Israeli film; Amos Gitai directed the film . The theme is the life of ultra-Orthodox Jews and the conflicts this way of life can bring with it. The film was first shown at the 1999 Cannes International Film Festival .

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The Talmudic student Meir and his wife Rivka have been married for over ten years but have remained childless. Although they love each other very much, their childlessness is seen as a curse or as a possible consequence of an act in which the halacha precepts about cultic purity were not properly observed.

Rivka's younger sister, Malka, after long reluctance, finally enters into the predestined marriage with Yosef, although she actually loves Yaakov, who has renounced this belief and is under suspicion.

The cause of the childlessness of Rivka and Meir's marriage cannot be clarified or remedied, as both a medical examination is against the regulations and the woman automatically seems to take full responsibility for it. The only duties of a woman are seen as enabling her husband to study the Torah and to give birth to children in order to raise them to be Jews. At some point Rivka had her secretly examined by a gynecologist outside of the district, who spontaneously couldn't find a cause that speaks against conception. However, Meir would also have to undergo a corresponding examination, which seems impossible.

His father, who is the rabbi of the Talmud school , forces Meir, after a long period of violent pressure, to return the marriage contract with Rivka, whereby their marriage is annulled. Both spouses are deeply unhappy about this, Rivka so much that she eventually commits suicide. Meir has meanwhile taken another wife as his father's will.

The relationship between Malka and Josef also breaks. Malka, who channels her frustration and hatred of the situation, among other things, by letting Yossef unknowingly violate the purity regulations, leaves the Orthodox community and its neighborhood in Jerusalem after Rivka's death .

Awards

Kadosh won numerous awards from the Israeli Film Academy, including those for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Yoram Hattab), Best Actress (Yaël Abecassis), Best Supporting Actor (Uri Klauzner), and Best Supporting Actress (Meital Berdah) . Before that, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival in 1999. At the British Independent Film Awards 2000 he won the prize for the best foreign language independent film; and won the Freedom of Expression Award from the US National Boards of Review that same year .

Reviews

Stephen Holden of the NY Times described the film as so grim that, before it was over, what began as a fictional treatise on a group of devout extremists took on the ominous tinge of psychological horror film. This view of Jewish orthodoxy is also so strict that, although it is a color film, it leaves the impression of a black and white film.

Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian said the film appeared to be tied into "some kind of Old Testament world of dogma and misogyny," in which even biblical events involving loyalty and respect for women were undone. Worldly ideas of sexuality, monogamy and infidelity appeared turned upside down.

The German film service called Kadosh "an almost archetypal love story in the form of a great lament", whereby the film dispenses with folkloristic and ethnographic clichés. The knowledge about the universality of the story is "necessary because it is the only response to the accusation that this film denigrates orthodox Judaism".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5308/year/1999.html , accessed on February 6, 2020
  2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189630/awards , accessed on February 6, 2020
  3. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/16/movies/film-review-a-dark-view-of-orthodoxy-in-jerusalem.html FILM REVIEW; A Dark View Of Orthodoxy In Jerusalem , Retrieved February 10, 2020
  4. https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian/0,4267,50234,00.html
  5. https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/512289/kadosh#kritik