Kadosh

Masters

  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Amos Gitai
  • Israel, France 1999
  • 110 minutes
  • Hebrew
  • Subtitles in English

Meïr and Rivka have been married for ten years but have to divorce because they have no children. Malka, Rivka’s sister, is in love with Yaakov, who has chosen to live outside the community. The rabbi makes a decision: Malka will marry Yossef, his assistant. Rivka falls prey to solitude, while Malka chooses another path: rebellion.

Set in Mea’ Shearim, the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem, Kadosh rages against the oppression of religion over women.

Filmography: A Tramway in Jerusalem (2018), Rabin, the Last Day (2015),Carmel (2009), Kedma (2002), Eden (2001), Kippur (2000), Yom Yom (1998), Zihron Devarim (1996).

20th Anniversary to the screening in the Cannes Festival | New Restored Copy.


  • Director Amos Gitai
  • Production Amos Gitaï, Michel Propper
  • Script Amos Gitai, Éliette Abecassis
  • Cinematography Renato Berta
  • Editing Monica Coleman, Kobi Netanel
  • Music Louis Sclavis, Alexander Claude
  • Sound Michel Kharat
  • Festivals Cannes 1999
  • Actors Yael Abecassis, Meital Barda, Yoram Hatav, Uri Klausner, Yussef Abu Warda, Sami Huri, Lia Koenig
  • Source Agav Hafakot Ltd., Tel Aviv / The Royal Belgium Cinemateque