Outstanding film dealing with social and moral conflict following the holocaust.
By chance, 2 Jews, one secular, the other Chasidic form a friendship that seems to transcends their differences, while the former learns from the latter.
We see anti-Semitism existing in our own N.Y. streets in the 1940s. We see the rift existing between a certain Chasidic sect and other Jewish groups when the former refuses to accept the state of Israel on the basis that the Messiah has yet to appear.
We see two outstanding performances by Max Schell, as a secular professor who is a zealot when it comes to Zionism and a superb Rod Steiger, as the Chasidic rabbi, tightly holding on to tradition in a 20th century world.
The accommodation reached by Steiger and his son by film's end is memorable and should never be forgotten.
By chance, 2 Jews, one secular, the other Chasidic form a friendship that seems to transcends their differences, while the former learns from the latter.
We see anti-Semitism existing in our own N.Y. streets in the 1940s. We see the rift existing between a certain Chasidic sect and other Jewish groups when the former refuses to accept the state of Israel on the basis that the Messiah has yet to appear.
We see two outstanding performances by Max Schell, as a secular professor who is a zealot when it comes to Zionism and a superb Rod Steiger, as the Chasidic rabbi, tightly holding on to tradition in a 20th century world.
The accommodation reached by Steiger and his son by film's end is memorable and should never be forgotten.