Fill the Void (2012) ( Lemale et ha'halal )

Fill the Void (2012) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Lemale et ha'halal
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Hebrew ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Hebrew ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Hebrew ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Hebrew ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Hebrew ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Israel ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Rama Burshtein

Written By:
Rama Burshtein

Actors:
Hadas Yaron ..... Shira
Yiftach Klein ..... Yochay
Irit Sheleg ..... Rivka
Chayim Sharir ..... Aharon
Razia Israeli ..... Aunt Hanna
Hila Feldman ..... Frieda
Renana Raz ..... Esther
Yael Tal ..... Shifi
Michael David Weigl ..... Shtreicher
Ido Samuel ..... Yossi
Neta Moran ..... Bilha
Melech Thal ..... Rabbi

Synopsis:

Shira (Hadas Yaron), a young woman living in an ultra-Orthodox enclave in Tel Aviv, faces a choice not unlike those faced by the heroines of Jane Austen novels and Hollywood romantic comedies. Which man will she marry? For Shira, this is an especially agonizing question because it forces her to weigh the claims of family loyalty, religious duty and her own desires. After a courtship conducted according to the rules of her community - where marriages are not precisely arranged, but brokered and facilitated by parents and professional matchmakers - Shira is engaged to a soft-spoken, ginger-bearded fellow. Her happiness is quickly overshadowed by the death of her beloved older sister, Esther (Renana Raz), who leaves behind a newborn son and a husband, Yochay (Yiftach Klein). As the family struggles with grief, the possibility begins to emerge that Yochay might marry Shira.

A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi's word are absolute.

A young Hasidic Jewish woman is pressured into an arranged levirate marriage to an older widower.

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