Post by Kaz ~;~ on Mar 9, 2011 16:39:19 GMT -5
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Director: Lynn Roth
Writers:
Lynn Roth (screenplay)
Amos Oz (novel)
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Plot Summary:: Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old wants nothing more than for the occupying British to get the hell out of his land. Proffy and his two friends spend most of their time plotting ways to terrorize and/or blow up the British until one evening, while he's out after curfew, Proffy is seized by Sergeant Dunlop, a British officer. Instead of arresting him, he deposits him back home,but what ensues in the weeks to come is a friendship between these two foes. Proffy looks to Dunlop as a father figure as his own father is cold and remote. Dunlop, lonely and poetic, loves the spirited boy and they find lots to talk about in their meetings which Proffy must keep a secret from his friends and family. When Proffy's friends follow him one day and see that he has been visiting the detested enemy...
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(Cast)
Ido Port ... Proffy
Alfred Molina ... Dunlop
Arieh Adler ... Radio announcer (voice)
Jacob Barker ... Chaim Zosoma
Theodore Bikel ... Interrogator
Vivian Brunstein ... British Solider
Levana Finkelstein ... Grandmother Tykocinski
Rami Heuberger ... Proffy's father
David Milton John ... British officer
Anat Klausner ... Yardena
Guy Krasner ... Chita
Tarek Kupty ... Arab merchant #2
Yonatan Lahat ... Ben Hur
Dafna Melzer ... Rachel
Zachi Noy ... Mr. Gihon
Director: Lynn Roth
Writers:
Lynn Roth (screenplay)
Amos Oz (novel)
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Plot Summary:: Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old wants nothing more than for the occupying British to get the hell out of his land. Proffy and his two friends spend most of their time plotting ways to terrorize and/or blow up the British until one evening, while he's out after curfew, Proffy is seized by Sergeant Dunlop, a British officer. Instead of arresting him, he deposits him back home,but what ensues in the weeks to come is a friendship between these two foes. Proffy looks to Dunlop as a father figure as his own father is cold and remote. Dunlop, lonely and poetic, loves the spirited boy and they find lots to talk about in their meetings which Proffy must keep a secret from his friends and family. When Proffy's friends follow him one day and see that he has been visiting the detested enemy...
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(Cast)
Ido Port ... Proffy
Alfred Molina ... Dunlop
Arieh Adler ... Radio announcer (voice)
Jacob Barker ... Chaim Zosoma
Theodore Bikel ... Interrogator
Vivian Brunstein ... British Solider
Levana Finkelstein ... Grandmother Tykocinski
Rami Heuberger ... Proffy's father
David Milton John ... British officer
Anat Klausner ... Yardena
Guy Krasner ... Chita
Tarek Kupty ... Arab merchant #2
Yonatan Lahat ... Ben Hur
Dafna Melzer ... Rachel
Zachi Noy ... Mr. Gihon
