In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect obsessed with the Bauhaus style. With their friends, they form a group, which discusses the future Israeli State.
Direction
Gitai's unflinching long takes that let awkwardness breathe.
Production
Bauhaus set design that mocks the characters' failed ideals.
Director
Amos Gitai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gitai's own kibbutz upbringing fuels the film's ambivalence; his father was a Bauhaus architect.
Arthur Miller's cameo as Father was his final film role—he was Gitai's neighbor in Connecticut.
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