Moshe Amar is a once poet and now a "businessman" who left his wife with their new born in Israel twenty years ago and spent them in the land of limitless possibilities trying to leave a mark of immortality but, up to that point, only got the marks that frantic debt collectors are more than happy to give. Tsach is the abandoned son who is now a skilled sniper in the Israeli Army. Tsach resents his father for both abandoning his mother for 21 years and not attending her funeral.
Acting
Ran Danker's simmering rage meets Moshe Ivgy's magnificent desperation.
Writing
Kollek's unsentimental dialogue—every word a small wound.
Director
Amos Kollek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Amos Kollek shot this in just 18 days on a shoestring budget, casting his frequent collaborator Karen Young after she famously played a similar lost American in his 1996 film 'Sue'.
The film captures a specific moment of Israeli cinema exploring the 'yordim'—emigrants who left for America and failed—moving beyond nationalist shame to examine personal wreckage. Kollek, himself a New York-based Israeli director, was essentially filming his own shadow self.
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