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Actors portraying Portugese Jews in the film "Sefarad" that was shot in 2018 in Porto, Portugal. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Portugal)

This Portuguese Jewish community couldn’t afford a rabbi. Now it made a $1 million movie coming to Amazon.

“Sefarad,” a 90-minute melodrama, is probably the costliest film ever produced by a Jewish community in Europe, and perhaps beyond.

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