Unorthodox: a thrilling story of rebellion and freedom from New York to Berlin
Shira Haas is mesmerising as the young woman fleeing a closed Hasidic Jewish community for a new life in secular Berlin
by Brigid Delaney
Apr 19, 2020
2 minutes
There is one indelible scene in Unorthodox that will stick in your memory long after you’ve finished watching the four-part miniseries.
Esty, a 19-year-old Hasidic Jew, has escaped from the constrictions of married life and her ultra-conservative community in Williamsburg and fled to Berlin. There she befriends some music students. This being modern, hip Berlin, the students are worldly, diverse and nonchalantly progressive.
They invite her on a
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