Released:
1999-06-10

Overview:
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?

Director:
Amos Gitai

Runtime:
1h 50min

Genre:
Drama, Romance

• Cast:
• 
  Yaël Abecassis
  as
  Rivka
• 
  Yoram Hattab
  as
  Meïr
• 
  Meital Barda
  as
  Malka
• 
  Uri Klauzner
  as
  Yossef