A gently ironic, but essentially Hasidic, debate between two middle-aged Jews who are reunited after more than a decade forms the dramatic core of THE QUARREL, a modest film about man's relationship to his God.
A large part of the film's ironic mood stems from its setting in postwar Montreal. It's 1948, and a huge cross dominates the city's Mont Royal Park where, by pure chance, Chaim Kovler (R.H. Thomson) meets old childhood rival and now Rabbi Hersh Rasseyner (Saul Rubinek). They had been fellow
students at a religious school, until Chaim left to pursue a career as a writer and the war separated them further by sending Chaim to Siberia and Hersh to Auschwitz. ...
Released:
1991
Rated:
NR
Length:
88 mins