One of Us (2017)
Leave the faith. Pay the price
Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.
- Date of release
- 2017-09-10
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (145)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Casting
- Etty — Herself, an Hasidic member
- Chani Getter — Herself, Footsteps counselor (ex-Hasidic)
- Ari Hershkowitz — Himself, ex-Hasidic
- Luzer Twersky — Himself, ex-Hasidic
- Yosef Rapaport — Himself, Hasidic Community Member
- David Mandelbaum — Himself, artistic director / new Yiddish rep
Interesting facts
One of Us is a 2017 documentary feature film that chronicles the lives of three ex-Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn. The film was directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, who also created the documentary Jesus Camp. One of Us opened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017, and was distributed the following month of October via Netflix, which also financed the film.
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