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Ḥaser menuḥah = Restless / Hamon Productions, Pie Films present ; produced by Michael Tapuach, Talia Kleinhendler ; written and directed by Amos Kollek.
חסר מנוחה
LIBRA DVD/PAL 016 031
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Israelis.
- Jews--Identity.
- Israel.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Israelis--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
- Jews--Identity--Drama.
- Jews.
- Fathers and sons--Drama.
- Fathers and sons.
- Israelis--Israel--Drama.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Israeli.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- [Widescreen presentation].
- Other Title:
- Restless
- Hebrew title sometimes transliterated as : Hasar menuha
- Place of Publication:
- [Israel] : United King Films : [distributed by] NMC United Entertainment, [2008]
- Language Note:
- In Hebrew and English, with subtitles in English and Hebrew.
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL, Region 2; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby digital 5.1
- PAL
- video file
- DVD video
- region 2
- Summary:
- "Restless has two extremely restless characters, a father and son divided by a 21-year estrangement and half the world. Amos Kollek's film regards these two characters as epitomizing the schizophrenic souls of Israelis in the 21st century, questioning their identities and debating what it means to be an Israeli and a Jew. The film takes place simultaneously in New York and Israel as the two men, angry and bitter in their restlessness, move toward a fateful meeting. ... Israeli actor Moshe Ivgy, who has the rumpled, worn handsomeness of Norman Mailer when he was in his 50s, plays the restless father. Moshe abandoned Israel, his wife and infant son some 20 years earlier for the supposed land of opportunity, America. He hasn't made it yet. He's behind on his rent, peddles junk on the sidewalk and, assuming the role of 'a village sewer poet,' spouts terrible, visceral poems in a Manhattan bar, mostly rhyming rants about his disappointment with life, with Israel and with love. Against all odds, he develops a following. Moshe never answered a single letter his heart-broken wife sent to him. Not once in 20 years. Now she is dead and the son he ignored since birth is a killer albeit a sanctioned one: Tzach (Ran Danker) is a top sniper in the Israeli army where he plans to make his career. When he accidentally shoots a Palestinian boy though that plan evaporates." Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter Web site.
- Participant:
- Moshe Ivgy, Ran Danker, Karen Young, Phyllis Somerville.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Virginie Saint Martin ; editor, Isaac Sehayek ; music, Delphine Measroch.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2008.
- Special features: behind-the-scenes featurette; photo album; original theatrical trailer.
- Aspect ratio 16:9.
- OCLC:
- 437048209
- Publisher Number:
- 7294276214190
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