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Wake Up, Grandson - Letters to my Rebellious Rabbi

92 Minutes, 2024
Genre:
Documentary

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Directed by: Renen Schorr
Production:Renen Schorr
Production Company:Blues Productions, Tel Aviv
Photographer: Gal Rumbak, Yaniv Linton
Original Music: Ehud Banai
Language: Hebrew
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Subtitles: English, Hebrew

Filmmaker Renen Schorr’s documentary is a partially scripted video diary of a lifetime of letters between grandparent and grandchild. The letter correspondence between Rabbi Heller of Safed and Renen, his Tel Avivian grandson that began in 1965 and lasted all the way to 1990, provides an intimate look at the deeply special relationship between the two, whilst also highlighting crossovers and clashes between Tel Aviv and Safed, the sacred and secular, art and tradition, and past and present.
The film comprises interviews, archival footage, and some scripted scenes. It opens on a dramatised version of Safed, circa 1900: a Jew walks the city’s dark alleyways carrying a torch as he wakes up fellow worshippers for morning services. From that moment, Schorr’s story begins to unfold, in which he examines his own personal awakening journey. He looks back to his past and inwards, at his own autobiography that features several highlights paralleling milestone moments in Israel’s collective history.
In his final letter, the grandfather – who had sought to bring Schorr into the folds of religion, in the hopes that he follows in his footsteps – asks his filmmaker grandson to make a film about him, thereby stepping into his world and enshrining his legacy.

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