Aaron Cohen's Debt (1999)

Genre

drama film

Country

Israel

Runtime

1h 30m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is taken to jail over a child support debt he says he does not owe. Despite his ill health and his daughter's efforts, he dies in custody overnight. The story follows the flawed investigation that tries to piece together how it happened.

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What happens

Aaron Cohen's Debt (Hebrew: חובו של אהרון כהן) is a non-linear, fact based 1999 Israeli film starring Moshe Ivgy as Aaron Cohen, a father abruptly taken into custody at his birthday party by police for one child-support payment which he does not believe he owes. Despite his frail health and his daughter's frantic attempts to bail him out, Aaron is forced to spend the night behind bars. Indifferent guards, an over-crowded cell and an infected ulcer thrust Aaron into a Kafkaesque nightmare. The following morning he is found dead and a hurried investigation hopelessly struggles to make sense of what happened. The film was directed by Amalia Margolin and written by Alon Bar. Originally made for Israel Cable Programming, it was released on 4 January 1999 in Israel and later in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia. The drama was acquired by the French-German channel ARTE in 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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