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Fill the Void
20126.41h 30m
Overview
Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child, Mordechay. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira's promised match. Everything changes when a match is proposed to Yochay-Esther's late 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 marry the widow and move to Belgium 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. She will find out that the void which she must choose exists only within her heart.
Directed by Rama Burshtein
Written by Rama Burshtein
Produced by Assaf Amir
Box Office0Revenue: $1.8M
Top Cast
Hadas Yaron
Shira Mendelman
Yiftach Klein
Yochay
Renana Raz
Esther Mendelman
Irit Sheleg
Rivka
Razia Israeli
Aunt Hanna
Hila Feldman
Frieda
Themes & Keywords
traditionrabbiwidowerwoman directorleviratejewish womanwomen's rights
About Fill the Void
Fill the Void is a drama film released in 2012 exploring themes of tradition, rabbi, widower, woman director, levirate, jewish woman. Directed by Rama Burshtein, it stars Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Renana Raz. Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child, Mordechay. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira's promised match. Everything changes when a match is proposed to Yochay-Esther's late 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 marry the widow and move to Belgium 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. She will find out that the void which she must choose exists only within her heart.
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