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Sentenced To Marriage (Mekudeshet) (tbc)
- Run time: 1 hour 5 mins
- Language: Hebrew
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1st January 2004
- Starring: Not Known
- Directed by: Anat Zuria
Plot Synopsis
Three young married women trapped in religious courts. They cannot get a divorce because the court needs their husbands’ consent in order to grant one. Dependent on their husbands' whim, they do not know when release will finally come.
Women in this situation are denied other relationships and are condemned to be barren, because a married woman is forbidden to another man. In Israel, a democratic country of the 21st century, their pain and suffering is embedded in the law. Being young and anonymous, their voices are silenced. For two years this documentary film follows the Kafkaesque struggle of Tamara, Michelle and Rachel - three young women doing all that is humanly possible to obtain a divorce, with the help of a group of female Orthodox rabbinical advocates.