The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch

Original title: Wolkenbruchs wunderliche Reise in die Arme einer Schickse

2018
TV-MA
1h 34m

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Joel Basman in The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2018)

Young Jewish man bucks orthodox traditions (and mother's meddling) by shaving, shopping outside the faithful, and considering a shiksa for a wife.Young Jewish man bucks orthodox traditions (and mother's meddling) by shaving, shopping outside the faithful, and considering a shiksa for a wife.Young Jewish man bucks orthodox traditions (and mother's meddling) by shaving, shopping outside the faithful, and considering a shiksa for a wife.

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6.6/10

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Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations

Trivia
Official submission of Switzerland for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020.

Quotes
Motti: There's a very clear scheme of life for Jewish men: we are born, get circumcised on the eighth day, have our Bar Mitzvah at the age of thirteen, and later we marry a Jewish woman who is as pious as we are. And then it's time to make babies, one after another. And in between, we work and pray, become grandfathers and great-grandfathers until, one day, we die, and the soul becomes bound up in the eternal bundle of life. So it is written. Everything nicely laid out, whether you like it or not.

Connections
Spoofs Psycho (1960)

Soundtracks
Go Go Go
Written by Daniel Wyttenbach, Daniel Schläppi, Thomas Schläppi, Kevin Chesham, Mathias Schenk
Performed by Death by Chocolate

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8/10

Realistic

A very realistic movie, gives us many of real situations in funny way. It is not related only with Jewish people. It fits well with any person belongs to a minority group in any place of the world. Especially if that minority group has strict rules to protect their values.