A BEAUTIFUL VALLEY
synopsis
Hanna Mendelssohn, an 80 year old widow, is a proud member of a kibbutz (collective community) she helped to found. Her world disintegrates as the privatization of the Kibbutz forces her into retirement. In addition she has to watch the Kibbutz turn into a community in which everyone is concerned for his or her own wellbeing. She strives to continue to live her life as she used to, but reality slaps her in the face over and over again. When all her hopes are dashed, she realizes that friendship still exists in the Kibbutz and though things will never be the same, something new can flourish.
international title: | A Beautiful Valley |
original title: | Emek Tiferet |
country: | Israel, France |
year: | 2011 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Hadar Friedlich |
film run: | 84' |
release date: | LU 14/11/2012, FR 14/11/2012 |
screenplay: | Hadar Friedlich |
cast: | Batia Bar, Gili Ben Ouzilio, Ruth Geller |
cinematography by: | Talia Galon |
film editing: | Hadar Friedlich, Nelly Quettier |
producer: | Eilon Ratzkovsky, Yael Fogiel, Yossi Uzrad, Guy Jacoel, Yochanan Kredo, Laetitia Gonzalez |
production: | Les Films du Poisson, July August Productions/Tel Aviv |
distributor: | Ad Vitam |