An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in Lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation and to fly to the world final soccer cup, he and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the (not so happy) end a relationship is made.
Acting
Ivgy and Abu-Warda's fragile, unspoken bond.
Direction
Riklis finds poetry in cramped, dusty limbo.
Writing
Dialogue that says everything by saying almost nothing.
Director
Eran Riklis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the First Intifada; Riklis smuggled dailies past military checkpoints.
The real 1990 final was West Germany's redemption—here, victory means nothing and everything simultaneously.
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