In his final film, the late Renen Schorr Heller (Late Summer Blues)—founder and longtime-director of the influential Sam Spiegel Film School—turns his camera on the 25-year exchange of letters between himself and his deeply religious grandfather Rabbi Avraham Heller, hero of the 1948 Battle of Safed. Their correspondence reveals a generational and ideological rift as Heller begs Renen to forsake filmmaking and devote himself to carrying out his grandfather’s rabbinical legacy. In what Wim Wenders praises as a “crash course in Israeli history”, the film captures a pivotal moment in Israeli society as it shifts from old world traditions to secular modernism, with Schorr becoming one of the defining figures of his era.
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