In For the Love of a Woman, director Guido Chiesa traces the threads that connect Esther, a tormented forty-year-old American, and Zayde, a professor with a burdensome past. The search for information about a woman who lived in Palestine in the 1930s brings them together and leads to the discovery of a surprising truth about their origins and their lives.
"Having retraced the same path of love, death, and rebirth as their ancestors, Esther and Zayde understand the importance of approaching life with empathy, with all its failures and dramas," says director Guido Chiesa.
The film was partly shot in Sicily. The 1930s Israeli settlement was created in Borgo Pietra, a former agrarian reform village in the municipality of Monreale between Alcamo and Gibellina. Scenes were also filmed in the centre and coast of Palermo. Scenes were also shot in Israel, the story’s setting.
In For the Love of a Woman, director Guido Chiesa traces the threads that connect Esther, a tormented forty-year-old American, and Zayde, a professor with a burdensome past. The search for information about a woman who lived in Palestine in the 1930s brings them together and leads to the discovery of a surprising truth about their origins and their lives.
"Having retraced the same path of love, death, and rebirth as their ancestors, Esther and Zayde understand the importance of approaching life with empathy, with all its failures and dramas," says director Guido Chiesa.
The film was partly shot in Sicily. The 1930s Israeli settlement was created in Borgo Pietra, a former agrarian reform village in the municipality of Monreale between Alcamo and Gibellina. Scenes were also filmed in the centre and coast of Palermo. Scenes were also shot in Israel, the story’s setting.
1970s. Esther, a tormented forty-year-old American, receives a letter on her mother's death: a woman who lived in British Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s holds a secret about Esther’s life. Esther travels to Israel where she is aided in her search by Zayde, a professor with a burdensome past. 1930s. A settler village, the atmosphere of a new world. farmer Moshe, a widower with two children, employs Yehudit to help him, unaware that the young woman will upend not only his life but also those of dreamer Yaakov and trader Globerman. Tracing the threads that connect past and present, Esther and Zayde discover a surprising truth about their lives.
