Footnote (film)

Footnote Hebrew , translit.Hearat Shulayim is a 2011 Israeli drama film written and directed by Joseph Cedar, starring Shlomo Baraba and Lior Ashkenazi. The plot revolves around the troubled relationship between a father and son who teach at the Talmud department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Eliezer Shkolnik Shlomo Bar Aba is a philologist who researches the different versions and phrasings of the Jerusalem Talmud. He and his son Uriel Lior Ashkenazi are both professors at the Talmudic Research department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Uriel, a young charismatic academic, is extremely popular with the departments students and the general public, and is also recognized by the establishment when he is elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The father, on the other hand, is a stubborn oldschool purist in his research methods. He is unpopular, unrecognized, and frustrated by his wouldbe lifetime research achievement having gone unfulfilled, as a rival scholar, Prof. Yehuda Grossman Micah Lewensohn, published similar results one month ahead of Eliezer. Eliezer is also highly critical of the new methods of research used by his son and other modern researchers, as he considers them superficial. His ambition is to be recognized by being awarded the Israel Prize, but he is disappointed every year when he does not win it. His nature and the lack of recognition have made him bitter, antisocial, and envious of his sons popularity. ........

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