Wake Up, Grandson - Letters to my Rebellious Rabbi

(2024)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2024

Runtime: 90 мин

Country: Israel

Director: Renen Schorr

Plot

The late Renen Schorr (Late Summer Blues) turns his camera on the 25-year exchange of letters between himself and his grandfather Rabbi Avraham Heller, hero of the 1948 Battle of Safed. Their correspondence reveals a generational and ideological rift, articulating the contradictions of Schorr’s generation of Israelis.