Soda

a Edward S. Finkelstein Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival monthly event

Israel, 2024/Drama, 99 minutes/Hebrew, w/subtitles/Written by Shlomo Efrati and Erez Tadmor/Directed by Erez Tadmor

Eva (Rotem Sela, Beauty and the Baker), a beautiful seamstress, causes quite a stir when she and her daughter move into a working-class neighborhood in Israel, 1954.   Among her suitors is the married Shalom Gottlieb (Lior Raz, Fauda), a former partisan leader and current factory foreman, who sees in Eva an unexpected chance at happiness.  But rumors of Eva’s past as a Kapo during the Holocaust shake the community, and Shalom must weigh his desire against his duty to uncover her secret, for the sake not just of his family, but of his fellow partisans as well.

Generously sponsored by Brenner Family of Dealerships