Rock the Casbah (2012 film)
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Yon Tumarkin (right) in a scene from the film.
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| Directed by | Yariv Horowitz |
| Produced by | Leon Edery Moshe Edery Adam Leibovitz Cyrille Perez Gilles Perez Paul Saadoun Ilan Sagiv Michael Sharfstein |
| Written by | Guy Meirson Yariv Horowitz |
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Yon Tumarkin Yotam Ishay Roy Nik Iftach Rave Henry David Lavi Zitner Shmulik Chelben Khaula Al Haji-Daibsi Adel Abou Raya |
| Music by | Assaf Amdursky |
| Cinematography | Amnon Zlayet |
| Edited by | Isaac Sehayek |
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94 minutes |
| Country | Israel |
| Language | Hebrew |
Rock the Casbah (Hebrew: רוק בקסבה) is a 2012 Israeli drama film.
During the First Intifada in 1989, Tomer, an eighteen-year-old Israeli soldier in Gaza, is sent to find a killers of a fellow soldier.
Rock the Casbah won the Berlin International Film Festival's C.I.C.A.E. award in 2013.
Jordan Hoffman of Film.com called the film "worth seeing and discussing" and gave it 7.3 out of 10, noting that it "succinctly expresses just how difficult and intractable the [Israeli-Palestinian conflict] is", and that "it is essential to encourage films that do not demonize the individuals on either side of the conflict." Another reviewer rated the film 4 stars out of 5 and remarked that it is "thoughtful in its representation of thoughtlessness, and curiously poetic". However, Dan Fainaru of Screen Daily argued that the film "attempts to offer an even-handed portrait of their confrontation with the Arab population, but ends up as an impressionistic report rather than a full scale dramatic experience", and Alissa Simon of Variety added that "the script fails to offer something viewers haven’t seen before."
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