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A New Movie Based on This Bestselling Israeli Book Is Coming to Theaters

JL;DR SUMMARY "For the Love of a Woman," directed by Italian filmmaker Guido Chiesa and adapted by Nicoletta Micheli, is a new film adaptation of Meir Shalev's novel "For the Love of Judith." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityIsraeli LiteratureJewish FilmMeir ShalevHistorical DramaFor The Love Of JudithJezreel ValleyNicoletta MicheliGuido ChiesaYehudit

Places mentioned

Israel
"Yehudit, who in 1930s pre-state Israel, was loved by three men in a fictional moshav in the Jezreel Valley."
Jezreel Valley, Northern District, Israel
"Yehudit, who in 1930s pre-state Israel, was loved by three men in a fictional moshav in the Jezreel Valley."
New York, United States
"For the Love of a Woman opens on June 26 at the Quad Cinema in New York."

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