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The Customer of the Off Season (1970)

The Customer of the Off Season poster
Original title
אורח בעונה מתה
Directed by
Moshé Mizrahi
Genre
drama film
Country
Israel
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
3.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man arrives in a small Israeli town during its slow off season. He gets to know the local residents and forms a connection with a woman who works there.

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What happens

The Customer of the Off Season (Hebrew: אורח בעונה מתה Ore'ach B'Onah Metah) is a 1970 Israeli drama film directed and co-written by Moshé Mizrahi. This was the first feature film directed by Mizrahi. The film, an Israeli-French co-production, was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bear Award in 1970. It also entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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