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Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife, Lea, passes away. Since they live in a tradition-bound culture that requires a mother present in every home, Rieven is supposed to be adopted by the boy’s strict, married uncle, but Menashe’s Rabbi decides to grant him one week to spend with Rieven prior to Lea’s memorial. Their time together creates an emotional moment of father/son bonding as well as offers Menashe a final chance to prove to his skeptical community that he can be a capable parent.
Shot in secret entirely within the Hasidic community depicted in the film, and one of the only movies to be performed in Yiddish in nearly 70 years, Menashe is a warm, life-affirming look at the universal bonds between father and son that also sheds unusual light on a notoriously private community. Based largely on the real life of its Hasidic star Menashe Lustig, the film is a strikingly authentic and deeply moving portrait of family, love, connection, and community.
Original Release
03/20/2017
US Release
03/20/2017
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Menashe Lustig | Menashe |
Anna Gansburg Nahmani | Mrs. Lipshitz |
Ariel Vaysman | Levi |
Sophie Vaysman | Perele |
Jorge Cea | Luis |
Shlomo Klein | Shmiel |
Meir Ber Schwartz | The rabbi |
Abraham Bresky | Moishe |
Hershy Fishman | Zalman |
Ruben Niborski | Rieven - Menashe's son |
Directors
Writers
Joshua Z Weinstein, Alex Lipschultz, Musa Syeed
Cast
Name | Character |
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Menashe Lustig | Menashe |
Anna Gansburg Nahmani | Mrs. Lipshitz |
Ariel Vaysman | Levi |
Sophie Vaysman | Perele |
Jorge Cea | Luis |
Shlomo Klein | Shmiel |
Meir Ber Schwartz | The rabbi |
Abraham Bresky | Moishe |
Hershy Fishman | Zalman |
Ruben Niborski | Rieven - Menashe's son |
Yoel Weisshaus | Eizik |
Sheindy Weichman | Feige |
Melanie Zoey Weinstein | Aunt Henchi |
Adelle Goldenberg | Yente |
Mirka Hermoza Laznik | Bayla |
Melissa Weisz | Bayla |
Chaim Szmidt | Begger |
Sara Vaysman | Leah |
Josh Alpert | Dovid |
Mutty Shur | Mutty |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Chris Columbus | Executive Producer |
Eleanor Columbus | Executive Producer |
Danelle Eliav | Executive Producer |
Dave Hansen | Executive Producer |
John K. MacDonald | Executive Producer |
Adam Margules | Executive Producer |
Joshua Z Weinstein | Producer |
Yoni Brook | Producer |
Royce Brown | Producer |
Traci Carlson | Producer |
Daniel Finkelman | Producer |
Maya Fischer | Producer |
Gal Greenspan | Producer |
Alex Lipschultz | Producer |
David Medford | Producer |
Nancy Medford | Producer |
Melanie Zoey | Producer |