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Tag Archives: Israel
Maria’s Lovers (1984) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Keith Carradine

Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanese POW camp, causing regular nightmares. Read More »
I Love You Rosa / Ani Ohev Otach Rosa (1972) Moshé Mizrahi, Michal Bat-Adam, Gabi Otterman, Moshe Tal

The love of Nissim for his widowed sister-in-law, Rosa in the Old City of Jerusalem at the turn of the century. Read More »
Or (My Treasure) (2004) Keren Yedaya, Dana Ivgy, Ronit Elkabetz, Meshar Cohen

Or shoulders a lot: she’s 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash Read More »
The Assassin Next Door / Kirot (2009) Danny Lerner, Olga Kurylenko, Ninet Tayeb, Henry David

In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, two women, unknown to each other Read More »
Pornography and the Holocaust AKA Stalags (2008) Ari Libsker

Documentary film about pornographic Stalag fiction books popular in Israel until the time of the Adolf Eichmann trial. Read More »
O Jerusalem (2006) Élie Chouraqui, JJ Feild, Saïd Taghmaoui, Maria Papas

Alternating between the unique vantage points of the Jews, the Arabs, and the British, director Elie Chouraqui’s historical drama Read More »
The Syrian Bride (2004) Eran Riklis, Hiam Abbass, Makram Khoury, Clara Khoury

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border Read More »
Eli & Ben (2008) Ori Ravid, Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Shevach, Yael Hadar

Ben (Lior Ashkenazi, “Walk on Water”) has always affectionately entertained his son Eli’s (Yuval Shevakh) mischievous behavior. Read More »
Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986) Moshé Mizrahi, Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor

An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Read More »