Fill the Void ( Lemale et ha'halal ) Movie Information

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Overall Rank: 3874

Average Rating: 3/4

# of Ratings: 7

Theatrical Release Date: 01/20/2013

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 09/24/2013

Language: Hebrew

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: PG

Director: Rama Burshtein

Actors: Yiftach Klein, Renana Raz, Ido Samuel, Hadas Yaron, Irit Sheleg, Yael Tal

Plot: This is about Shira (Hadas Yaron) the youngest Mendelman, an ultra-orthodox Jewish family living in the city of Tel-Aviv. She is about to marry a boy of his age and is very excited about the plans and preparations for the wedding. However, the illusion falls apart when suddenly, celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim, her sister Esther (Rhenish Raz) dies leaving her husband alone, Yochai (Yiftach Klein) and young son. -- Ivana

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You don't have to do anything, darling!

Ivana - wrote on 10/31/2014

In this drama we met Shira, a 18 years old girl who is very excited about her arranged marriage. She met his engaged man and she liked him. But suddenly, when her older sister dies, the equilibrium of the whole family is on her shoulders when all her circumstance shows that the place in her life is to fill the void that her older sister left in the family.

She has to deal with her unknown and denied emotions, the desires of her family, the responsibility of becoming the wife of her sister's widower and mother of her nephew, and also keeping the harmony imposed by the Jewish system.

An idea from her mother, starts to guide toward a solution and every member of the family have their process to assimilate this proposal. We can see this in their non-expression phiz, hiding and …

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