Zaytoun (2012)

Directed by

Eran Riklis

Genre

drama film, adventure film, thriller film

Country

France, Israel, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

12

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Israeli fighter pilot is shot down in Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon war. A Palestinian boy helps him escape through the war-torn city and into Israel.

tenseadventurousshifting moodsgrittyemotionally chargedunpredictablebleakdetermined

What happens

Zaytoun (Hebrew: זייתון, Arabic: زيتون, romanized: Zaytūn, "Olive") is a 2012 Israeli adventure thriller film directed by Eran Riklis and produced by Gareth Unwin and Fred Ritzenberg. It premiered in September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival. The screenplay was written by Nader Rizq, a Palestinian-American living in the United States. What started as a hobby in 1991 ended up making the semi-finals of the 2001 Nicholl Fellowships run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Subsequent re-writes again placed in the Nicholls and semi-finaled in the Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards. In late 2007, American producer Fred Ritzenberg came aboard and helped further develop the script. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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