A Stranger Among Us

A Stranger Among Us is a 1992 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Melanie Griffith. It tells the story of an undercover police officers experiences in a Hasidic community. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.

Emily Eden Griffith, a hardened New York City homicide detective, goes undercover to investigate the murder of a Hasidic diamondcutter. To do so, she lives with the family of the Hasidic rebbe, an elderly Holocaust survivor who is revered for his wisdom and compassion toward his fellow Jews. He says to her, You and I have something in common We are both intimately familiar with evil. It does something to your soul.While living with the rebbes family, she takes a liking to his son, Ariel Eric Thal, a young man who works as a diamondcutter but teaches in the yeshiva and is expected to follow his father as the next rebbe. In addition to keeping all 613 Mitzvot, he is waiting for his intended, or bashert, the daughter of a Paris rebbe whom he has not yet actually met. They are the subjects of an arranged marriage, but he believes that she is his soul mate, chosen by God. He is also studying the Kabbalah, which is regarded as rather daring for a man under 40. Its discussion of sexual intimacy is restrained but specific, as well as a metaphor for the relationship between Man and God. ........

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