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Produced by: Iginio Straffi and Alessandro Usai, Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa
A production: Colorado Film Production and Vivo film with Rai Cinema
Release: May 29th 2025
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 117' min
Country: Italy
Language: English, Hebrew
DIRECTED BY Guido Chiesa
SCREENPLAY Nicoletta Micheli, Guido Chiesa
FROM THE NOVEL “The Loves of Judith” di Meir Shalev
PHOTOGRAPHY Emanuele Pasquet
EDITING Luca Gasparini
MUSIC Zoë Keating
WITH Mili Avital, Ana Ularu, Ori Pfeffer, Alban Ukaj, Marc Rissmann, Serhii Kysil, Anastasia Doaga, Sira Topic, Limor Goldstein
1970s. Esther, a tormented American in her forties, receives a letter upon the death of her mother: she has to find a woman who lived in the 1930s in Palestine and holds a secret about her life. Esther begins her search in Israel helped by Zayde, a university professor with a peculiar past. 1930s. A settlersʼ village, the atmosphere of a new world. Moshe, a widower with two children, hires a woman to help him out. The arrival of Yehudit changes the life of Moshe and two other men: Yaakov, a romantic farmer, and Globerman, a cattle trader. A playful and tragic love intrigue begins. Tying together the threads that bind past and present, Esther and Zayde will discover a shocking truth.
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