Footnote movie

Drama

Footnote Israeli drama film written and directed by Joseph Cedar, starring Shlomo Bar'aba and Lior Ashkenazi. The plot revolves around a power struggle between a father and son who teach at the Talmud department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.The film won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Footnote won nine prizes at the 2011 Ophir Awards, becoming Israel's entry for the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Directed by
                 Joseph Cedar
Written by
                 Joseph Cedar
Starring
                 Shlomo Bar'aba
                 Lior Ashkenazi

Description:
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 in his sessions with the department's 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 old-school purist in his research methods. he is unpopular, unrecognized, and is frustrated by his would be lifetime research achievement having gone unfulfilled, as his rival scholar, Prof. Yehuda Grossman (Micah Lewensohn) had completed and published similar results ahead of him. He is also highly critical of new methods of research used by his son and other modern researchers, as he considers them feather-light and superficial. His greatest ambition is to be recognized by being awarded the Israel Prize, but he is bitterly disappointed every year when he does not win it. His stubborn nature and lack of recognition have made him largely bitter and anti-social, and envious of his son's popularity.