Unorthodox (2020)

Directed by

Maria Schrader

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, United States

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 751 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman flees her arranged marriage and her strict Hasidic community in Brooklyn. She travels to Berlin to start a new life while her husband tries to find her.

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What happens

Unorthodox is a German drama television miniseries that debuted on Netflix on March 26, 2020. Inspired by Deborah Feldman's 2012 autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, it is the first Netflix series to be primarily in Yiddish. The four-part miniseries was created and written by Anna Winger and Alexa Karolinski, and directed by Maria Schrader. The series received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series (Shira Haas), and Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series (Anna Winger), winning for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series (Maria Schrader) - the first ever Primetime Emmy for a German production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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