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aka EINAYM PKUHOT
Year: 2009
USA: New American Vision
UK: Peccadillo pictures
Cast: Zohar Shtrauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell Ravit Rozen,
Tzahi Grad, Isaac Sharry, Avi Grayinik, Eva Zrihen-Attali
Director: Haim Tabakman
Countries: Israel / Germany / France
Language: Hebrew (English subtitles)
USA: 90 mins
UK: 96 mins
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate sex
USA Release Date: 5 February 2010 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 14 May 2010 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis
Aaron (Zohar Strauss), a respectable butcher in Jerusalem’s
ultra-orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka (Tinkerbell
Ravit Rozen) and is a dedicated father of four children. One day, he
meets Ezri (Ran Danker), a handsome 22 year-old student, and begins
to fall in love with him.
He then starts to neglect his family and community life, swept away
by his love and lust for Ezri. Meanwhile, paralleling this
relationship, a neighbouring shopkeeper persists in seeing a man of
her own choosing, even though she's been promised by her father to
another. Eventually, guilt, torment and pressure from the community
will catch up with the forbidden affairs, leading them to make
radical decisions...
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