I Love You Rosa (Hebrew: אני אוהב אותך רוזה, romanized: Ani Ohev Otach Roza) is a 1972 Israeli film written and directed by Moshé Mizrahi.

Mizrahi claimed that he wrote the script based on a true event that happened in his family and was passed down through stories over the years.

[2] Present Day: Eleven-year-old Nessim accompanies his grandmother Rosa to visit the grave of her husband, who died forty years ago.

Rosa earns her living unusually for her time, working in the baths during the day and as a seamstress at night.

Her friend Jamila tries to set her up with a tradesman named Eli, but Rosa refuses, knowing she is promised to Nessim by law as long as he is willing to marry her.

When Nessim's mother comes to take him home with great commotion the next day, the rabbi intervenes.

Shortly after, when Nessim receives his first job and gets paid, he becomes arrogant, throwing the money at Rosa, claiming to be an adult, and ordering her to bring him food.

However, Rosa does not complete the formal ceremony of renunciation, "Chalitza," in front of the rabbi; instead, she leaves the room prematurely.

It marked the final collaboration of filmmakers Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus in Israel before they relocated to Hollywood, where they acquired Cannon Films.

The film features Gabi Otterman in his only cinematic role, portraying young Nessim in both past and present.

The central conflict in the film revolves around the Levirate, a law outlined in Deuteronomy 25:5–10 (Luther Bible).

It states, among other provisions: "When brothers reside together and one of them dies without leaving a son, the wife of the deceased must not marry outside the family to a stranger.

If he persists in saying, 'I do not want to marry her,' his sister-in-law shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and say, 'This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family.