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Tale of Life
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[Plays Nov. 11-16 during the Austin Jewish Film Festival; for information, log on to https://austinjff.org/event-list/.] When a teenage Jewish girl (Mari Nagy) is stricken with cholera in the early 1900s and a doctor (György Gazsó) says that there is nothing he can do to heal her in David Bodrogi's somber, dark, well-acted, thought-provoking, 17-minute film, her widowed mother (Kata Kuna) becomes distraught and joins other villagers in prayer with the rabbi (Péter Scherer) at the synagogue and try to bargain with God to give up part of their life in exchange for saving the young girl.

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Year:
2021
Rating:
 NR
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