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on the conflict between the religious and the secular or between the individual
and the religious community. Geula shows the diverse realities that surround
an isolated person (isolated both from his religious community and the secular
world). However, by portraying Menachem’s struggle as burdened by the nar-
row-mindedness of both worlds, his religiousness as starting as “consumption”
(with grandiose signs expected from God), and his self-righteousness as creat-
ing only a temporary escape (with which Menachem’s journey starts), Madmo-
ny and Yacov give a certain universal appeal to the story.29 By coming to terms
29 At the 2018 Jerusalem Film Festival Geula won the audience choice award and was recognized as the
Jewish Experience of the festival. See Tobias 2018. Geula won the main prize of the Ecumenical Jury at
the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2018), while the lead actor, Moshe Folkenflik, received the
Fig. 6: Broken Boarders. Film still, Geula (Joseph Madmony / Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, IL 2018),
00:56:28.
Fig. 5: Gaze into a Different Reality. Film still, Geula (Joseph Madmony / Boaz Yehonatan Yacov,
IL 2018), 00:56:23.
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JRFM
Journal Religion Film Media, Volume 05/01
- Title
- JRFM
- Subtitle
- Journal Religion Film Media
- Volume
- 05/01
- Authors
- Christian Wessely
- Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
- Editor
- Uni-Graz
- Publisher
- SchĂĽren Verlag GmbH
- Location
- Graz
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Size
- 14.8 x 21.0 cm
- Pages
- 155
- Categories
- Zeitschriften JRFM