The Great Sadness of Zohara

The Great Sadness of Zohara

5.7 / Rating 6 votes 1983
Language: English
Country: Israel

A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit.

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Nina Menkes, , is an independent filmmaker. Her films include The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983), Magdalena Viraga (1986), Queen of Diamonds (1991), The Bloody Child (1996), "Massacre (Massaker)" (2005), Phantom Love (2007), Dissolution (2010), and Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022). Nina Menkes' sister Tinka appears as an actress in many of them. Menkes teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, California. She has donated copies of several of her works to the Academy Film Archive.