CAST:
Simone Benyamini (Esther),
Mohammed Bakri (Mordecai),
Juliano Mer-Khamis (Haman),
Zare Vartanian (Ahasverus),
David Cohen (Hagai)

SCRIPT:
Amos Gitai,
Stephan Levine

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Henri Alekan

Synopsis:
This is the story of Esther from the Old Testament, who is behind the Jewish holiday Purim. The Persian king Ahasverus took Esther for his wife after he abandoned his first wife Vashti. Esther does not have a father or a mother and was raised by her uncle Mordecai. Haman, a royal favorite, gets permission from the king to exterminate all the Jews in the kingdom after Mordecai refuses to kneel down before him. Esther, a Jew herself, manages to save her people.

35 mm, color, 97 min