Guy Amir,
Juliano Mer,
Juliano Merr,
Kobi Livne,
Liat Glick Levo
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On Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) in October 1973, the Egyptian and Syrian armies made a surprise attack on Israel, igniting the Yom Kippur War, a conflict which cost more than 2,000 Israeli lives....( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 28, 2001
Stats: 39 reviews
Ignore the usual comments regards to the flow of the film.It's sheer film-making at it's most possible and at it's most believable.The Israeli Platoon,too much dreadfulness and a few comrades who do the job.Is that all?Gitai locates the gene of good/evil inside the petrified eyes...( read more)
An Israeli film about the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Largely based on director Amos Gitai?s own experiences, it tell the story of a soldier placed in a chaotic environment, that?s about as much story as one will find here as this is a largely non-narrative film. Gitai often has long ...( read more)
Pretty bloody, I guess, but I wasn't sure what, if anything, the point was? Showing some guys in a war? It's been done. Maybe not for this specific war, I guess. But nothing unusual happened here. What, then, is the redeeming value? What separates it from any other? I real...( read more)
Israeli Anti-War movie.
Contains beautifully photographed, surrealistic scenes of war.
For example, there's a very strong scene of a rescue team who tries to carry a wounded soldier, but the tired members of the rescue team slip and drop the wounded soldier into the deep mud agai...( read more)
interesting camera movement, realism makes you care about the characters
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