Campfire (film)

Campfire- Medurat Ha-Shevet (original)
Directed by Joseph Cedar
Produced by David Mandil
Eyal Shiray
Written by Joseph Cedar
Starring Michaela Eshet
Hani Furstenberg
Moshe Ivgy
Maya Maron
Music by Ofer Shalhin
Cinematography Ofer Inov
Edited by Einat Glaser-Zarhin
Distributed by Film Movement
Release date
  • 9 September 2005 (2005-09-09)
Running time
 96 minutes
Country Israel
Language Hebrew
English
Box office $34,835 (U.S. domestic)[1]

Campfire (Hebrew: מדורת השבט‎, translit. Medurat Ha-Shevet, lit. Tribal Campfire) is an Israeli movie released in 2004, written and directed by Joseph Cedar. The film won five Israeli Academy Awards and was Israel's official submission for the 77th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category (but did not get a nomination). The film was well received in Israel, the United States, and in international film festivals.[2]

Set in 1981, the film focuses on a woman seeking to join an Israeli settlement on the West Bank, despite the protests of her teenage daughters.[3]

Synopsis

The story of a young widow (Michaela Eshet), mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, who wants to join the founding group of a new settlement of religious Jews in the West Bank, but first must convince the acceptance committee that she is worthy. Things get complicated when the younger daughter is sexually abused by boys from her youth movement.

Cast

  • Michaela Eshet as Rachel Gerlik
  • Hani Furstenberg as Tami Gerlik
  • Maya Maron as Esti Gerlik
  • Moshe Ivgy as Yossi
  • Assi Dayan as Motkeh
  • Oshri Cohen as Rafi
  • Yehoram Gaon as Moshe Weinstock
  • Yehuda Levi as Yoel
  • Avi Grainik as Oded
  • Idit Teperson as Shula (as Edith Teperson)
  • Itay Turgeman as Gozlan
  • Barak Lizork as Yaniv
  • Danny Zahavi as Ilan
  • Dina Senderson as Inbal
  • Ofer Seker as Yair

References

  1. ↑ "Campfire (2005)." Box Office Mojo. 1 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Tugend, Tom. "Religious Tensions Spark ‘Campfire.’" Jewish Journal. 4 November 2004. 31 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Stephen Holden (September 9, 2005). "A Time of Tangled Transition in Israel, and in a Family". The New York Times. Retrieved September 24, 2017.


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