"Israel's most internationally recognized filmmaker -- and its most controversial." - Robert Sklar, Film Comment
"Amos Gitai's most ambitious film to date...Handsomely photographed." - David Stratton, Variety
A Cross-Cultural Comedy
A Uniformly Funny Film
Winner of 3 Israeli Academy Awards
"Combines brutal cinema verité with passages of poetry. A tough, anguished reconstruction of an episode in the founding of Israel." – A. O. Scott, The New York Times
"Amos Gitai’s visionary re-imagining of his coun
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