Just released in UK cinemas is the award-winning, highly-acclaimed Israeli war film Lebanon.
Director Samuel Maoz based the project - his first feature film - on his own experiences as a young conscript.
Distributed in the UK by Metrodome, Lebanon has picked up a whole clutch of accolades including the Golden Lion Award at the 2009 Venice Film Festival and the 14th Annual Satyajit Ray Award.
Below is the official synopsis and a trailer, plus some excellent interviews with the director, other crew and one of the actors that give a fantastic background and insight into the film and make fascinating reading.
Firstly, here's the official synopsis:
The First Lebanon War - June, 1982. A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israel Air Force. What seems to be a simple mission gets gradually out of control and turns into a death trap,...
Director Samuel Maoz based the project - his first feature film - on his own experiences as a young conscript.
Distributed in the UK by Metrodome, Lebanon has picked up a whole clutch of accolades including the Golden Lion Award at the 2009 Venice Film Festival and the 14th Annual Satyajit Ray Award.
Below is the official synopsis and a trailer, plus some excellent interviews with the director, other crew and one of the actors that give a fantastic background and insight into the film and make fascinating reading.
Firstly, here's the official synopsis:
The First Lebanon War - June, 1982. A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israel Air Force. What seems to be a simple mission gets gradually out of control and turns into a death trap,...
- 5/16/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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