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7.5/10   50 votes
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Director:
Dror Zahavi
Writers:
Ido Dror (writer)
Jonatan Dror (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
2 October 2008 (Israel) more
Genre:
Drama
Plot:
The story takes place during one weekend in Tel-Aviv, in three main spots that lead to Carmel Market... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 7 nominations more
User Comments:
a too simplistic film about a too complex conflict more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Shredi Jabarin ... Tarek
Hili Yalon ... Keren
Shlomo Vishinsky ... Katz
Jony Arbid ... Abed
Shadi Fahr-Al-Din ... Salim
Rosina Kambus ... Zipora
Oren Yadger ... Shaul
Dina Golan ... Sara
Chaim Banai ... Rehavia
Michael Moshonov ... Shlomi
Amir Yerushalmi ... Avinoam
Khawlah Hag-Debsy ... Fatma
Avital Pasternak ... Adina
Adel Abou Raya ... Ali
Yussuf Abu-Warda ... Saleh
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Alles für meinen Vater (Germany)
For My Father (International: English title)
Shabat Shalom Maradona (Israel: Hebrew title) (working title)
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Runtime:
Israel:100 min
Country:
Germany | Israel
Language:
Hebrew
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Germany:12 (f)
Company:
Praxis Films more

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Quotes:
Keren: If I thought there was an afterlife, I'd kill myself. more

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
a too simplistic film about a too complex conflict, 1 November 2008
5/10
Author: dromasca from Herzlya, Israel

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Seeing this film was a kind of surrealistic experience. On a Friday night in a cinema complex in the center of Tel Aviv, me and my wife were the only two viewers. Private screening. Taking into account that our tickets were not even paid by us but won on a raffle by the Tel Aviv edition of Time Out, this film does not seem to enjoy commercial success.

It is certainly deserving more. This film is one in a row of films that started to appear from both sides of the never ending and violent conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, dealing with one of the most cruel aspects - suicide bombings. The approach that is being taken here is to try to humanize without necessarily explaining or excusing, and combine the story with a romantic line.

The result is mixed. The film dares too little, Dror Zahavi who studied and works in Germany made a film that looks unexpectedly like conventional Israeli cinema or even more like Israeli commercial theater. His succeeds in the marginal aspects - the life of low-class Tel Aviv a few hundreds of meters from the glamorous aspects of the largest and most contradictory city in Israel. He succeeds less in the principal conflict and fails to says anything new or unexpected on this line.

Zahavi is being helped by a team of experienced actors in the secondary roles - especially Shlomo Vishinsky and Rozina Cambos (this is how her Romanian name is correctly spelled :-)) as a slightly strange, pain and loss-stricken aged couple. Shadi Fahr-Al-Din does what you would expect, while Hili Yalon gives in my opinion the best performance in the movie, as the vulnerable young woman finding strength to fight her destiny of being born in an ultra-orthodox Jewish family and build a life of her own. The problem is that good acting cannot feel for the flaws of the story, and especially of its ending. The conflict in the Middle East is tough and complex. Simple and conventional solutions do not work here. So does not work the ending of this film.

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