Menashe
Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Released
- 2017
- Country
- United States, Israel
Details
Release year: 2017
Storyline
Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.
Top credits
Menashe Lustig ā Menashe- Anna Gansburg Nahmani ā Mrs. Lipshitz
- Ariel Vaysman ā Levi
- Sophie Vaysman ā Perele
Did you know
ā¢ Director Joshua Z Weinstein, who is neither a member of a Haredi community nor a speaker of Yiddish, used a translator on set.
ā¢ Shot over the course of two years.
ā¢ The Jewish diaspora in Brooklyn has more than 600.000 members and is the largest of its kind in the world.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $1,703,036
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $62,078 (2017-07-30)
User reviews
Incisve portrait of Hasidic widower from first-time feature director
A Different Type Of Story, But Its Themes Are For All Of Us.
Providing a glimpse of the daily life within the Hasidic Jewish community
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1
- Color
- Color
