My Father My Lord

Director: David Volach
Israel 2007 72 mins
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles

An astonishing debut feature by director David Volach that recalls one of the most powerful Jewish stories - Abraham’s sacrifice of his son Isaac. Director and writer Volach knows intimately about this world, since he was born into an ultra-Orthodox family of 19 children and lived and studied as a Hassidic scholar until he was 25 years old. The film depicts Rabbi Abraham, who lives with his wife and son in an ultra- Orthodox community in Jerusalem. He is a man devoted to a life of study and worship, who hopes to impart his faith to his young son Menachem. On a summer vacation to the Dead Sea the faith of the Rabbi is put to a severe test.

Volach comments: “In My Father My Lord, I wanted to demonstrate the foundations of the atheistic excitement which is ingrained in us from childhood – the natural curiosity through which life is observed; the encountering of events as they are without a self-imposed meaning; emotions accessed directly, devoid of hierarchic discipline – a world view full of wonder…”.

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Sun 13/04/2008 - 18:30   The Screen on the Hill
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