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A Group Portrait with a Woman
$19.99
The true story of an Israeli Jewish woman who left the country after being forced, by tragic circumstances, to give her only daughter up for adoption, her child from a Muslim-Bedouin man.
Driven by her guilt and low self-esteem, the heroin finds herself abused by all men in her life. Finally, she returns to Israel to search for her lost child and finds herself, together with her director friend, in an unusual cinematic recreation of her life, a voyage that covers three decades, a number of countries and an un-ending escape into oblivion, survival and loss.
Her loves, her escapes, the men in her life, all serve as an echo to that one unfortunate act. Again, in an unusual manner, the heroine finds herself faced, as in a Greek chorus, with a re-examination of her life, and finds that nothing has changed over the years.
The situation reaches its climax when the real character discloses herself to the viewers, towards the film’s end, when she replaces the actress portraying her, and describes the epilogue of her tragic life story.
Israel, 2003.
Duration: 93 minutes
Directed and produced by: Yitzhak Rubin, Teknews