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Title: The Band's Visit (2007)
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Sasson Gabai | ... | Lieutenant-colonel Tawfiq Zacharya | |
| Ronit Elkabetz | ... | Dina | |
| Saleh Bakri | ... | Haled | |
| Khalifa Natour | ... | Simon | |
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Rubi Moskovitz | ... | Itzik |
| Uri Gavriel | ... | Avrum | |
| Imad Jabarin | ... | Major-general Camal Abdel Azim | |
| Hilla Sarjon | ... | Iris | |
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Shlomi Avraham | ... | Papi |
| Tarik Kopty | ... | Iman (as Tarak Kopty) | |
| Rinat Matatov | ... | Yula | |
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Tomer Yosef | ... | Ars |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Ahuva Keren | ... | Lea | |
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François Khell | ... | Makram |
| Hisham Khoury | ... | Fauzi | |
On an ordinary day, the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event, only find there is no delegation to meet them, nor any arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva. When they find their own ride, they arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, led by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly lunch owner, Dina, who offers to put them up for the night. As the band settles in as best it can, each of the members attempts to get along with the natives in their own way. What follows is a special night of quiet happenings and confessions as the band makes its own impact on the town and the town on them. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
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I liked this movie. As a viewer, I was subjected to a wide range of emotions during this film: joy, frustration, embarrassment, delight and so on.
One must understand that Israel and Egypt had been long time enemies (until the peace agreement in 1979) and that Israeli Jews and Arabs have very different views on so many matters. Within this context the humanity of the film really shines. People of such different backgrounds are basically the same; Same hopes and aspirations, same fears and frustrations etc. The same things make all of us tick.
This film is also about strangers and others. And how we can help one another. The scene with Haled and the Israeli boy and girl in the skating rink is, my opinion, classic.
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