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The Cemetery Club
Mo'aden Beit Ha'kvarot
Director: Tali Shemesh
Country: Israel released 2006
Duration: 90 min.
Language: Hebrew
w/ subtitles
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Every Sabbath morning the Mt. Herzl Academy Social Club meets at the eponymous National Cemetery, where its members—elderly, in-your-face Polish-born Jerusalemites (the director’s stupefying great-aunt among them)—debate Immanuel Kant, declaim poetry, argue incorrigibly, and together face inexorable losses. Don’t miss this tremendously moving, hilarious portrait of Israel’s emotionally rugged, dwindling Holocaust generation. 

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