My Father My Lord (2007)

My Father My Lord is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a fathers love and his deep devotion to religion A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional gap between the impish child and the stern father When the fathers allconsuming obsession with observing religious ritual inadvertently leads to tragedy his previously subservient wife rages against both her husband and God A dramatic retelling of the story of Abraham