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Janem JanemFilm Details:
Drama
Israel/France, 2005
100 min

Director: Haim Bouzaglo
Producers: Haim Bouzaglo, Yoram Millo, Amir Gedalia, Nelly Kafsky

Theme: Israel, Foreign Workers, Friendship, Terror

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Synopsis:

Eldi, a high-school teacher and a class tutor, 40 years old, is in a midlife crisis.
He just returned from a long army reserve service in Jenin and informs the school’s principal that he is not coming back to teach. His midlife crisis is blended with a trauma caused by the loss of his friend, in front of his eyes, killed by a gunshot of a sniper in an observation post.
His wife, a psychologist, offers him to get away for a long vacation.
Eldi goes for a journey in his own country…
Incognito…
An unknown world appears to him in the middle of Tel Aviv. A world of Turks and Romanians laborers, paperless immigrants in a shabby hostel.
Eldi examines the new situation; he is attracted to the hotel receptionist, a Russian girl escaping from an Israeli who had “bought” her to be his wife. Gradually he is drawn into the world of the foreign workers, while observing them from their own point of view.



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