The Quarrel

1991 Rated PG-13 · ⭐ 6 · Votes: 1

“They have one afternoon to reclaim their friendship... and their faith.”

Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he's asked to be the tenth in a minyan. As he sits in the park he suddenly sees an old friend whom he hasn't seen since they quarrelled when they were yeshiva students together. Hersh a rabbi survived Auschwitz and his faith was strengthened by his ordeal while Chaim escaped the Nazis but had lost his faith long before. The two walk together reminisce and argue passionately about themselves their actions their lives their religion their old quarrel and their friendship.