An ihrer Stelle

An ihrer Stelle (2012)

למלא את החלל

Erzählt wird die Geschichte der 18jährigen Schirah aus einer charedischen Gruppe in Tel Aviv. Schirah steuert auf ihre Heirat mit einem Mann zu, der ihr von der Familie vorgeschlagen wurde. Doch es kommt auf tragische Weise anders. Schirahs Schwester stirbt bei der Geburt ihres Kindes und lässt ihren Ehemann Jochaj mit Baby und trauernder Familie zurück. Die Familie ändert darauf hin ihre Meinung zu Schirahs kommender Hochzeit und ihr wird vorgeschlagen Jochaj zu heiraten.

Erscheinungsdatum
2012-07-01
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (78)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 30 Min.
Genres
Drama
Regie
Rama Burshtein

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Auszeichnungen: 2 · Nominierungen: 1. Darunter: Ophir Award/Bester Film; Europäischer Filmpreis/Beste Kamera

Fill the Void is a 2012 Israeli drama film written and directed by Rama Burshtein. It focuses on life among the Haredi Jewish community in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hadas Yaron stars as Shira Mendelman, an 18-year-old girl who is pressured to marry her older sister's husband, following the death of her sister in childbirth.

Production

Fill the Void was written and directed by Rama Burshtein, who, in the course of its production, became the first Haredi Jewish woman to direct a film intended to be viewed outside of the Haredi community. In doing so, she hoped to create a greater understanding of the Haredi community, in part by dispelling the common misconceptions that women are often forced into arranged marriages; despite the differences in structure, the woman is always give…

As a people, we are thousands of years old, and we exist without that conflict of the secular and the religious. The truth is that most of us do not want to leave our communities. All of those films were always about someone either trying to get out or someone from the outside trying to get in, and it was very important for me to say that we also just exist and feel and love and struggle and hurt by ourselves, not always because we're in conflict…

In her director's notes, Burshtein wrote, "I love Jane Austen. She's romantic, intelligent, and full of humor. ... The parallel is also quite obvious in that 'Fill the Void' takes place in a world where the rules are rigid and clear. The characters are not looking for some way to burst out of that world.

Merry suggested that, regardless of cultural differences, the story is universal, due to "its themes of loss and family loyalty, not to mention the realization that life may not align with our idealized expectations". Boston Globe correspondent Peter Keough agreed that the "themes of love and loss, self-sacrifice and self-preservation" are applicable to audiences both in and outside the Haredi community.

Casting the film took a full year to complete, largely because, according to Burshtein, she "didn't know what [she] wanted". She initially considered using "regular people" with no background in acting, before realizing that "non-actors couldn't handle the complexities of their characters".

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