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The Quarrel

Movies
Drama directed by the Israeli director Eli Cohen ("The Summer of Aviya", "Two Fingers From Sidon") at the center of which is a disagreement between two Shoah survivors, Chaim and Hirsh, who meet by accident one day in a park in Montreal in 1948. The two, graduates of orthodox yeshivas have chosen for themselves different ways of life; Chaim is a secular author and journalist, he lost his faith even before the Shoah and Hirsh is an orthodox rabbi whose faith only got stronger. In the chance meeting of the two an old argument comes up about faith and the existence of God.*