The desire to be beautiful is still strong, no matter what the circumstances are. The women giggle and whisper to each other, passing around fragments of a broken mirror. They arrange their hair, and smile at their own reflections. This is a world which exists only behind the prison walls, where a lullaby whispered lovingly in a baby's ear echoes with the sting of hatred, where compassion and cold blooded disdain live closely together, and where empowerment grows from the depths of despair.


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▷ 0:00 Intro
▷ 00:21 Brides of Allah
▷ 54:21 Credits
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Israeli director Natalie Assouline chronicles the lives of women who are serving time in prison for involvement in terrorist attacks in Israel. The intimate portrait, filmed over the course of two years, tries to uncover the motivations behind the actions of these women. This film is structured as a journey into an unknown world between good and bad. At every turn we receive new information and experience new emotions that make it impossible to remain coherent. We find ourselves liking these women, but we feel discomfort in the fact that we do. We want to pity them, but they are too strong for our pity. We get close to them, and a moment later we are thrown clear, horrified by their actions and their lack of remorse fascinated at the same time… There is no black or white in this film, only painful shades of gray. This documentary searches to understand how a woman, a mother, is capable of committing such a horrific act. How can she take part in the death of children and babies? How can she leave her own children motherless? What is that motivating power, which is more compelling then the natural maternal desire to protect her children at all cost?

Original title: Brides of Allah
Directed by Natalie Assouline

© 2008, Licensed by First Hand Films


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