In third series on Netflix, Shtisel maintains focus on the personal

Published: 30 March 2021

Last updated: 5 March 2024

Director Dikla Barkai says a large part of the show’s appeal is that is does not try to impose an outsider’s perspective on the characters, but concerns itself with ‘very human stories’

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Director Dikla Barkai says the show does not ‘deal with political and societal conflicts. The series deals a lot with the characters themselves and the worlds they live in, but the stories are very human stories’

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Photo: Doval’e Glickman (left) and Michael Aloni as Shulem and Akiva Shtisel