They didn’t know how to play the political game, so they made it up as they went along – setting off on one of the oddest, most surprising and moving election campaigns Israel has ever known.
CINEMA J
FALL ARTS FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT
The Unorthodox
Wednesday, November 6
6:30 PM | Opening night reception
7:00 PM | Film
Israel | Drama | 2018 | 99 min| Hebrew, English subtitles
When Yakov Cohen’s daughter is expelled from school for ethnic reasons, he decides to fight back. It’s 1983 and Yakov, a printer in Jerusalem, is just a regular guy. He has no knowledge, no money, no connections and no political experience. But he does have the will and the passion to take action, and a belief that he and other Sephardic Jews should be able to hold their heads up high. Yakov brings two friends along and together they start the first ethnic political group in Jerusalem, with an operation characteristic of the people they represent: not the suit-wearing types, but rather the people working their way up from the bottom. Their operation is informal, full of love for their fellow man, animated by a great sense of humor and a whole lot of rage. The Unorthodox is a fictionalized account of the creation of Israel’s Shas party. They didn’t know how to play the political game, so they made it all up as they went along - setting off on one of the oddest, most surprising and moving election campaigns Israel has ever known.
2019/11/06 - 2019/11/06
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