Apples from the Desert (2014)

6.2/10 96 min Drama

Overview

Based on the award-winning play and popular Israeli short story, this poignant family drama follows Rivka, 19-years-old and strong-willed, who struggles to follow the conservative lifestyle of her ultra-orthodox parents in Jerusalem. Determined to break free from her parents’ rigid worldview, she runs away to a secular farming community in the desert. The decision pushes the two generations to confront the chasm between their stringent views of tradition and modernity.

Cast

Moran Rosenblatt

Rivkah

Shlomi Koriat

Reuben

Reymonde Amsallem

Victoria

Irit Kaplan

Sarah

Tzvi Shissel

Ze'ev

Moshe Ashkenazi

Yossi

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