A Green Chariot: A Film About Russian-Israeli Identity

This dramatic clip (03:56) is from “A Green Chariot” (2005), a film about a young Russian immigrant to Israel who abandons his secular Russian identity, friends and family in order to fully integrate into Modern Orthodox Israeli society, only to find out that he is not considered Jewish according to Orthodox Jewish law. The film highlights the challenges of the experience of Russian immigrants in Israel, including cultural, linguistic and religious differences, and the different level of integration experienced by the older and younger generations of immigrants.Â