January 1991, Israel is bracing itself to withstand Saddam’s promised onslaught of chemical and biological warfare. Against this backdrop of a nation trying not to panic, Alain Tasma paints an intimate portrait of a young French immigrant couple struggling to cope.
Drama, 102 min.
Languages: French, Hebrew and English
Tamar- Sarah Adler
Gil- Lior Ashkenazi
Anastasia- Meriam Zohar
Amos- Tsahi Grad
Bela- Hannah Laslo
Shmulik- Dov Glickman
Taxi Driver- Moni Moshonov
Effi- Alon Pdut
Moti- Tal Freidman
Prof. Megido- Moshe Ivgi
Herzel- Yigal Adika
Directed by - Alain Tasma
Produced by - Thomas Anargyros, Edouard de Vésinne
Co produced by – Amir Harel
Written by - Valérie Zenatti
In participation with
Cipango, Studio 37, Films Kairos, Lama Films, France 3 Cinéma, Israel Film Fund, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
Director of Photography - Dominique Bouilleret
Editor – Marie-Sophie Dubus
Original Music - Cyril Morin
Art Directors - Miguel Markin
It’s January 1991, and Israel is bracing itself to withstand Saddam’s promised onslaught of chemical and biological warfare. Against this backdrop of a nation trying not to panic, Alain Tasma paints an intimate portrait of a young French immigrant couple struggling to cope. But Tasma is also concerned to give us a sense of how the political seeps into people’s lives, as he builds a complex web of interactions and conflicts across Israeli society.
Jasmine Trinca plays Luisa, a French student grappling with her depressive, angry, artist boyfriend Nathanael (Gaspard Ulliel). Meanwhile, Tamar (Sarah Adler, star of Jellyfish) is due to give birth on the 15th, which also happens to be the coalition’s ultimatum date for Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait…