Section: Focus

HABODEDIM

THE LONERS

Renen Schorr

Israel, 2009, 92 Min

Norma Productions

Accused of having sold weapons to Hamas, two Israeli soldiers of Russian descent end up in a military prison. In order to force a fair trial they take the guards and several fellow inmates hostage. An absorbing thriller that transforms the claustrophobic isolation of its protagonists, strangers at home, into a genre film. The idea for the film was inspired by an event that took place in 1997, when twenty Soviet-born soldiers of the Golani Brigade staged a rebellion in the military prison in which they were being held.

Filmformat
35mm | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Guy Meirson, Renen Schorr, Moshe Zonder, Nir Bergmann

Kamera
David Gurfinkel

Ton
Aviv Aldema

Schnitt
Einat Glaser Zarhin

Ausstattung
Ido Dolev

Musik
Shem-Tov Levy

Darsteller
Sasha Agrounov, Anton Ostrovsky, Rotem Zussman, Tzahi Grad, Henry David

Produzent
Assaf Amir

Produktion
Norma Productions

Kontakt
Norma Productions
18th Levontin Street
65112 Tel Aviv
Israel
Tel: +972.3.56 09 311
Fax: +972.3.56 09 443
info@norma.co.il

Renen Schorr - born 1952 in Jerusalem, Israel. Studied film at the University of Tel Aviv. Founded the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in 1989.

Movies
AFTER DUTY (1977, short)
THE BATTLE OF FORT WILLIAMS (1981, short)
WEDDING IN JERUSALEM (1985, short)
BLUES LAHOFESH HAGADOL (1987)

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