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FIVE HOURS FROM PARIS (Past Film)
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Completed - HEBREW - Drama, Romance - 90 minutes

Log Line

Only 5 flight hours from Paris, in a working-class suburb of Tel Aviv, two people meet.

Previous markets

  • AFM 2009 (Debut)
  • Berlin EFM 2010 (Line up)
  • Cannes 2010 (Line up)
  • AFM 2010 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Leon PRUDOVSKY
Writer(s) : Erez KAV-EL, Leonid PRUDOVSKY
Cast : Dror KEREN, Helena YARALOVA, Vladimir FRIEDMAN

Producer(s) : Haim MECKLBERG, Estee YACOV-MECKLBERG

Synopsis

Yigal (Dror Keren, of ADAM RESURRECTED) is, at first glance, a mild-mannered everyman who maintains a close relationship with his ex-wife and her new husband because of his devotion to his son. Yigal drives a taxi for a living, and while he is a master of ground travel, he harbours a secret fear that stands in the way of his lifelong dream: he yearns to visit Paris but is petrified of flying. Dropping his son off at choir practice one day, he catches a glimpse of the music teacher, Lina (Elena Yaralova), whose dark, dimpled beauty belies a growing emotional unrest. Dateless since his divorce, Yigal proceeds in small steps, even when Lina discloses that she and her physician husband, Russians by birth, will soon emigrate to Canada. Yigal insists he wants nothing more than friendship, and the two begin a tentative emotional minuet.

Production

Country(ies) : ISRAEL

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