Rock the Casbah (2012)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Rock the Casbah |
| Original title | Skirt Ba-Casba |
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| Country of production | Israel |
| original language | Hebrew |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yariv Horowitz |
| script | Guy Meirson, Yariv Horowitz |
| production | Leon Edery Moshe Edery Adam Leibovitz Cyrille Perez Gilles Perez Paul Saadoun Ilan Sagiv Michael Sharfstein |
| music | Assaf Amdursky |
| camera | Amnon Zlayet |
| cut | Isaac Sehayek |
| occupation | |
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Rock the Casbah ( Hebrew רוק בקסבה) is a 2012 Israeli drama film directed by Yariv Horowitz .
action
Rock the Casbah is set in 1989, at the time of the first Intifada . He describes the life of the growing Israeli soldier Tomer ( Yon Tumarkin ) and his army unit in the Middle East conflict . When a member of his squad ( Henry David ) is killed, Tomer is one of four men chosen by the commandant to carry out a surveillance operation. That's how they want to catch the perpetrator. Tomer has mixed feelings about the assignment. He is raised by his comrades because he plays with Arab children who his comrades refer to as “little terrorists ”. However, since the soldiers are less popular with the Arab population in the area, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Tomer to be friendly to them. And it soon becomes clear that the war will change Tomer too.
background
The script for Rock the Casbah was written by Guy Meirson and Yariv Horowitz. Yariv Horowitz also directed. The film is supposed to show the effects of the war on the psyche of those involved. It is supposed to show the pointlessness of armed actions that always provoke new injustice.
In Germany, the film was shown in the original with subtitles at the International Film Festival in Berlin and some German cinemas. It also ran on German television in April 2015.
There is a Hebrew, English and French language DVD release.
Reviews
Jordan Hoffman of Film.com described the film as worth seeing and worth discussing. Rock the Casbah describes how complicated and difficult to resolve this conflict is. Hoffman gave the film 7.3 out of 10 points. However, Screen Daily 's Dan Fainaru stated that while the film is an accurate portrait of an ongoing tragedy, the film has more color and oomph than it actually goes into depth. Alissa Simon of Variety magazine adds that the film doesn't offer viewers anything they haven't seen before.
Awards and nominations
Awards
Aubagne International Film Festival:
- 2013: Special Prize of the Jury (Yariv Horowitz, Assaf Amdursky, Topia Communications)
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy:
- 2012: Best Editing (Isaac Sehayek)
Bergamo Film Meeting:
- 2013: Silver Rosa Camuna (Yariv Horowitz, Topia Communications)
Berlin International Film Festival :
- 2013: Panorama (Yariv Horowitz)
Nominations
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy:
- 2012: Best Film (Yariv Horowitz, Michael Sharfstein, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery)
- 2012: Best Director (Yariv Horowitz)
- 2012: Best Supporting Actress (Khaula Al Haji-Daibsi)
- 2012: Best Sound (Gil Toren, Avi Mizrahi, Michael Legum)
- 2012: Best Art Direction (Ariel Glazer)
- 2012: Best Music (Assaf Amdursky)
- 2012: Best Makeup (Sigalit Grau)
- 2012: Best Israeli Feature (Yariv Horowitz)
Skip City International D-Cinema Festival:
- 2013: Feature Film (Yariv Horowitz)
Web links
- Rock Ba-Casba in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rock Ba-Casba . In: Berlinale.de . Retrieved May 21, 2014.
- ↑ Panorama Rock the Casbah . In: Berlinale.de . Retrieved May 21, 2014.
- ↑ ROCK THE CASBAH performances . In: Cinetixx.de . Retrieved May 20, 2014.
- ↑ Rock the Casbah. . Rtv.de. Archived from the original on August 3, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
- ↑ Rock the casbah (FR Import) . In: Amazon.de . Retrieved May 20, 2014.
- ↑ Rock BaCasba- rock in the casba- Israeli Hebrew Movie Dvd 2013 (English Sub) . In: Amazon.co.uk . Retrieved May 20, 2014.
- ↑ Jordan Hoffman: Cannes Review: 'Rock the Casbah' . In: Film.com . May 31, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
- ↑ Dan Fainaru: Rock The Casbah . In: Screen Daily . February 9, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
- ↑ Alissa Simon: Review: "Rock the Casbah" . In: Variety . February 11, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
- ↑ Rock Ba-Casba (2012) Awards . imdb.com. Retrieved May 21, 2014.