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The 2018 Autonomy series, directed by Yehonatan Indurski, proved to be quite curious, though most likely intended mainly for the Israeli public, or at least for those who are at least a bit in the subject. The genre is dystopia, the action takes place in an indefinite time, some realities are absolutely modern, some are completely outdated (I cannot believe that the current Ukrainian realities are so poor as shown in the film), the Israeli state, unable to solve its internal problems within a single state, divided into two autonomy – secular with the capital in Tel Aviv and religious with the capital in Jerusalem, in the film as if two main storylines, one is related to events and characters, the second is connected with religious traditions. Despite the fact that traditions are supposedly observed, it is still not without violations. The main character is Yona Broide (Assie Cohen) just from the religious, but earns a living by small smuggling, bringing in his van, on which he transports the dead, from secular autonomy banned books and videos, and sometimes non-kosher food, as it turns out later accidentally, some books (Thucydides, for example) including the chief rabbi Rabbi Kreinitz (Shuley Rand). One day he meets a saxophonist Anna Blum (Daniela Cartes), from whom he took the body of her friend, who wanted to be buried in Jerusalem, with whom he then gets close. Unexpectedly, it turns out that the daughter of Rabbi Elka (Tali Sharon) is alive daughter, which at one time was declared dead, she was replaced by a hospital worker, which now decided to confess, planting her a girl who accidentally killed. And then events begin to unfold around this girl, in which not only biological and adoptive parents, but also rabbi, and Broide, and other characters are involved. Passions boil, kidnapping is organized, one of the heroes dies, and Broide himself commits a terrible act in the end. Thank goodness the baby will be fine and the biological mother will decide to leave it to her adoptive parents. In the end, the idea of autonomy seems to be defeated, but not to the end, after it is announced that it has been liquidated and joins the secular state, at once the compulsory conscription of inevitables into the army is announced, and unrest begins again, i.e., again came to the same point.
It was quite interesting to watch, but I will not recommend to everyone, frankly, Stiesel, in which Indurski was one of the writers, I liked it more.