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The cat helps the rabbi pass a French language exam so that he might one day become head rabbi, but after the exam the cat loses his ability to speak (as he invoked the name of God to pray for his master).
In the sequel, the rabbi, his cat, the rabbi’s Koran-thumping sheikh cousin and a Russian-Jewish painter (rather symbolically) journey in search of an African Jerusalem.
Set in 1920’s Algiers, a widower rabbi lives with his voluptuous and dutiful daughter and their pesky cat who swallows a parakeet and begins to speak, driving everyone crazy and moving the plot ahead by insisting on having a bar-mitzvah.
Dec 7, 2012 · The frisky kitty at the heart of “The Rabbi’s Cat” — an endearingly loopy animated feature from Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux — is hairless, bunny-eared and intent on preparing for his bar...
May 7, 2008 · In the Algiers of the '30s, a nameless, scrawny gray cat belonging to a cheerful old rabbi, Abraham Sfar, eats the rabbi's parrot and discovers that he can talk.
Jan 1, 2001 · In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master’s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didn’t eat the parrot).
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The Rabbi's Cat: Directed by Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar. With François Morel, Hafsia Herzi, Maurice Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Kalfon. Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.
