The emotional gulf between an Orthodox rabbi and his son leads to tragedy in this religious drama. Revered Israeli actor Assi Dayan stars as the father in this modern retelling of the parable of Abraham and Isaac.

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Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
(unspecified) - Hebrew
Subtitled - English - Optional
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Distributor Notes: A "heartbreakingly tender" (New York Times) new entry into Israel's ongoing filmmaking renaissance, My Father My Lord is "an anguished, mordant sigh of a fable" (New York Sun) set in the ultra-orthodox Israeli community in which writer-director Volach was raised. This "astonishing debut feature" (Variety) is a "beautifully made film" (Newsday) portraying childhood at its most transcendent and fundamentalism at its most intimately corrosive. "We do everything in the Torah without asking why," Rabbi Eidelman (Assi Dayan), a pious, respected elder in a cloistered Hasidic enclave tells his wonderstruck only son Menahem (Ilan Grif). But at an age where life prompts questions increasingly outside the confines of doctrine, Menahem unwittingly runs afoul of his father's inflexibility. Mindful of her marriage vows but accepting of her son's boyish curiosity, Rabbi Eidelman's wife Esther (Sharon Hacohen Bar) is caught in the middle. A holiday at the seashore meant to reconnect the family brings the ideological rift between pre-teen boy and middle-aged man to a biblically and dramatically tragic climax. "Lifting equally from the secular religiosity of Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Decalogue and the aesthetics of Jewish ritual itself" (Village Voice), and "profoundly compassionate toward its characters" (NY Times), My Father My Lord "shines with a radiance and grave grace.' (Entertainment Weekly)

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Assi Dayan: Israeli Actor, DEVARIM (1996)
Sharon Hacohen Bar: Actress
Ilan Griff: Actor

David Volach: Director

Eyal Shiray: Producer, YOM YOM (1998)

"[E[very minute shines with a radiance and grave grace..."-- Grade: A
"For all its criticism of blindly exercised patriarchal authority, the movie is heartbreakingly tender."
"MY FATHER MY LORD is an impressive first feature that stands out for its emotional qualities, its ambition and its brevity....This 73-minute Israeli film manages to do a lot with very little time."