Goyta (2007)

Goyta

The lives of a Hassidic young man (Yoyli) and a Polish young woman (Mariola) intersect when they find themselves secluded in a car after he offers her a ride home. This, after Yoyli and his mother picked her up from a street corner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Polish, immigrant women wait to be taken to Hassidic homes to help with the cleaning of their house. In the movie they negotiate the labor at $8 an hour. After scrubbing and scouring for a bit, and after observing a world that is completely foreign to her, Mariola succumbs to the toxic fumes of the cleaning agents and falls and faints. After regaining consciousness, she leaves the house in an angry huff. At the prodding of his sister and father, Yoyli goes out to find her and offer her a ride. She accepts not realizing the differences of their worlds that would place the two young people in a tense and heated situation that is never fully resolved.

Goyta

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Agnieszka Podsiadlik
Agnieszka Podsiadlik
as Mariola
Abe Lebovic
Abe Lebovic
as Yoyli
Faigy Salomon
Faigy Salomon
as Young Hassidic Woman
Suzanne Toren
Suzanne Toren
as Mother
David Benger
David Benger
as Hassidic Boy
Jessica Carlson
Jessica Carlson
as Miriam
Osher T. Girshberg
Osher T. Girshberg
as Father

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Joanna Jurewicz
Joanna Jurewicz
Editor
Mátyás Erdély
Mátyás Erdély
Director of Photography
Jacek Dabrowski-Udziela
Jacek Dabrowski-Udziela
Producer
Derrick Espino
Derrick Espino
Sound Editor
Adam Walsh
Adam Walsh
Assistant Director
Joanna Jurewicz
Joanna Jurewicz
Writer
Kate Gilroy
Kate Gilroy
Executive Producer
Monika Lenczewska
Monika Lenczewska
Producer
Joanna Jurewicz
Joanna Jurewicz
Director
Pearl Gluck
Pearl Gluck
Writer
Laura Richard
Laura Richard
Associate Editor

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