Fill the Void
2012 · Movie · 83 min. · Israel
Lemale Et Ha’Chalal tells the story of an Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv. Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream-cometrue, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira’s promised match. Everything changes when an offer is proposed to match Yochay—the late Esther’s husband—to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it’s too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again. When the girls’ mother finds out that Yochay may leave the country with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart’s wish and her family duty...
Direction Rama Burshtein
Cast Hadas Yaron · Yiftach Klein · Irit Sheleg · Chayim Sharir · Razia Israeli · Hila Feldman · Renana Raz · Yael Tal · Michael David Weigl · Ido Samuel · Neta Moran · Melech Thal
Soundtrack Yitzhak Azulay
Screenplay Rama Burshtein
Cinematography Asaf Sudri
Original title Lemale et ha'halal (Fill the Void)
6.2
459 votes (FilmAffinity)
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