I Love You Rosa
Directed byMoshé Mizrahi
Written byMoshé Mizrahi
Produced byYoram Globus
Menahem Golan
Itzik Kol
StarringZivi Avramson
CinematographyAdam Greenberg
Edited byDov Hoenig
Music byDov Seltzer
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguageHebrew

I Love You Rosa (Hebrew: אני אוהב אותך רוזה, romanized: Ani Ohev Otach Roza) is a 1972 Israeli film directed by Moshé Mizrahi. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[1] It was also entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Plot

Based on the life of director Mizrachi's mother[3][4] in late 19th century Jerusalem, the flashback-framed plot involves a young, childless, Sephardic-Mizrahi widow under pressure to comply with ancient law and eventually marry her late husband's little brother, Nissim, a grief-stricken eleven-year-old at odds with his other brother and sister-in-law, in whose home he lives. Much against her inclination for independence,[5] the widowed Rosa takes him in with the rabbi's permission, earning a living for them both, and seeing to his education and beginnings of a gainful occupation for him. As he grows into an adolescent with changing affections toward her, and other suitors remain open to her,[6][7] conflicts flare. And Nissim disappears. Five years later, when he returns as a young man, it is from Europe, with an education and livelihood of his own, confronting Rosa's determination to possess her own freedom, and the long-postponed legal decision between them.[8]

Jerusalem had a brief but heavy snowfall during the shoot; the filmmakers incorporated it beautifully into the script rather than work around it.

Cast

In alphabetical order

  • Zivi Avramson - Esther
  • Naomi Bachar - Luna
  • Michal Bat-Adam - Rosa
  • Yehuda Efroni - Don Yitzhak
  • Levana Finkelstein - Jamila
  • Esther Grotes - Alegra
  • Gunther Hirschberg - narrator
  • Avner Hizkiyahu - Rabbi
  • Elisheva Michaeli - Regina
  • Gabi Otterman - young Nissim
  • Aliza Rosen - Rabbi's wife
  • Yosef Shiloach - Eli
  • Moshe Tal - adult Nissim
  • Sharit Yishai - Fortuna

See also

References

  1. "The 45th Academy Awards (1973) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
  2. "Festival de Cannes: I Love You Rosa". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
  3. "I Love You Rosa". Amazon. 31 March 2009.
  4. "I Love You Rosa - DVD Netflix".
  5. "I Love You Rosa".
  6. "I Love You, Rosa - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes.
  7. "I Love You Rosa".
  8. "I Love You Rosa".
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