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Kadosh
a.k.a. Sacred Director: Amos Gitai Cast: Yaël Abecassis, Yoram Hattab, Meital Barda, Uri Ran Klauzner

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  • DVD Release Date: 11/28/2000
  • Original Release: 1999
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 44,601

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Original theatrical trailer; "The Making of Kadosh" featurette": A 24-minute documentary about the making of the film

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Scene Index

Side #1
0. Scene Selection
1. Opening titles [8:08]
2. Malka's betrothal [9:13]
3. A marriage unfulfilled [11:59]
4. A question of purity [9:50]
5. Approaching the wall [11:22]
6. The wedding dress [10:26]
7. Man and wife [6:11]
8. A professional opinion [5:45]
9. Meir's defense [3:11]
10. Rivka withdrawn [12:47]
11. Happy purim [11:18]
12. To another world [15:52]

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Editorial Reviews

A dark drama of women living in a society where they are second-class citizens, Kadosh/Sacred begins with Meir, an Orthodox Jew living in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem, greeting the day with his morning prayers, which includes the phrase, "Thank you, oh Lord, for not having made me a woman." Meir begins to understand just how poorly regarded women can be in the Orthodox faith when his rabbi suggests he should leave his wife. Meir and Rivka (Yael Abecassis) have been married for ten years and have a solid relationship based on affection and mutual respect. However, they have been unable to have children, and as Meir is reminded, the Talmud says a woman without children may as well be dead. Consequently, the rabbi advises Meir to divorce Rivka and take up with a younger woman who can give him a family. Meanwhile, Rivka's younger sister, Malka (Meital Barda), is soon to wed Yossef (Uri Ran Klauzner) in a match arranged by their parents, even though Malka loves another man, Yaakov (Sami Hori), who has dared to question the teachings of the Orthodox faith. Yossef soon proves to be blind to Malka's emotional and physical needs, and she begins to wonder how long she can continue to live within this circle, even though it is the only world she knows. Destined to be controversial in its native Israel, Kadosh/Sacred was shown in competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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April 25, 2003: It's an interesting phenomenon that if someone looks at a thing and wants to find a trait in it, if they look hard enough they will find what they are looking for regardless of whether or not that trait is there. Kadosh is an example of this. Much of what is in this movie is completely made up, and the rest is taken completely out of context. It was made by a secular Jew, not someone familiar with the subject (or if he is at all familiar, he is very biased), and is about as representative of Orthodox society as the human characters in the movie Chicken Run are representative of humans. I might add that I was born Jewish but that I became Orthodox by my own choice, and that I have never felt discriminated against as an orthodox woman. If you decide to watch this movie - and I will grant that it does have some stirring scenes, if you can somehow get past the fact that it is not a portrayal of Orthodox Judaism but rather of some repressive figment of the imagination - I would ask that you take it with a grain of salt.