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The Holy Land (2001)

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User Rating: 6.6/10 (189 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Eitan Gorlin
Writer:
Eitan Gorlin (writer)
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
A coming-of-age saga set against the tense backdrop of Arab-Israeli politics. Mendy is a young Rabbinical... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
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Awful more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Oren Rehany ... Mendy
Tchelet Semel ... Natasha "Sasha" Sonsova
Saul Stein ... Mike
Albert Iluz ... Razi
Aryeh Moskona ... The Exterminator (as Ariel Moskuna)
Alon Dahan ... Reb Nocham (Mendy's Rabbi)
Mosko Alkalai ... Professor Milan (as Moscu Alcalay)
Liat Bein ... Mendy's Mother
Yehoyachin Friedlander ... Mendy's Father
Lanny Shahaf ... Exterminator's Wife
Lupo Berkowitch ... Daryl (as Lupo Berkowitz)
Arie Hassfari ... Jamal (schoolboy)
Harel Noff ... Hobo Priest
Icho Avital ... Bar Patron
Louise Asher ... Screaming Lady
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for sexual content, language and some drug use.
Runtime:
USA:102 min
Country:
Israel
Color:
Color
Certification:
USA:Unrated | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Jerusalem, Israel
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1 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Awful, 7 August 2003
1/10
Author: Daniel from Brooklyn, NY

If you're not Jewish or have not been to Israel and you're looking for a film that will give you a flavor of either, skip this one entirely. Not only is it full of clichés and stereotypes, but it's simply incoherent. And not in a good way.

Why does this film have distribution at all? It has a juicy one-liner which makes it easy to advertise: "Orthodox yeshiva boy falls for Russian prostitute..." And because there's a whiff of controversy and some T&A, I'm sure some festival judges and distributors were taken in. Don't you be.

The writer-director has nothing to say except that Israel can be a crazy place, and no technique with which to say it. The acting is mostly horrendous. The woman who plays the prostitute is interesting, but since there's hardly any character development or narrative arc she's treading water most of the time. The rest of the cast is unbearably amateurish. Not a single element of the setting is believable--not the Jewish home, the Yeshiva setting, or the Jerusalem bar. It's all low, low budget (though that's never an excuse not to have vitality) and hermetically sealed from the real world. I could list the inconsistencies and improbabilities, but why bother? What an enervated mess.

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