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Trembling Before G-d (2001) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Oct 24, 2001
Official Website:
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Running Time
1 hour, 20 minutes
Country USA, France, Israel
Studio Cinephil, Keshet Broadcasting, Pretty Pictures, Simcha Leib Productions, Turbulent Arts
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Genre: Documentary, Religion, Gay/Lesbian, Society, Culture Clash
Tagline: The hidden lives of gay and lesbian Orthodox and Hasidic Jews.
Plot: Trembling Before G-d is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma - how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. As the film unfolds, we meet a range of complex individuals - some hidden, some out - from the world's first openly gay Orthodox rabbi to closeted, married Hasidic gays and lesbians to those abandoned by religious families to Orthodox lesbian high-school sweethearts.Many have been tragically rejected and their pain is raw, yet with irony, humor, and resilience, they love, care, struggle, and debate with a thousands-year old tradition. Ultimately, they are forced to question how they can pursue truth and faith in their lives. Vividly shot with a courageous few over five years in Brooklyn, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, London, Miami, and San Francisco, Trembling Before G-d is an international project with global implications that strikes at the meaning of religious identity and tradition in a modern world. For the first time, this issue has become a live,
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