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Directed by | Eran Merav |
Produced by | Assaf Amir Charles Gillibert Marin Karmitz Nathanaël Karmitz Talia Kleinhendler Thomas Springer Helmut Weber |
Written by | Eran Merav |
Starring | Reuven Badalov Ronit Elkabetz |
Music by | Blake Williams Mary Lago Williams |
Cinematography | Itzik Portal |
Studio | EZ Films K5 Film United Channel Movies |
Distributed by | Regent Releasing Cinemax MK2 Diffusion |
Release date(s) | (France) 5 August 2009 |
Running time | 84 min |
Country | Israel France |
Language | Hebrew |
Zion and His Brother is a 2009 French-Israeli drama film starring Reuven Badalov and Ronit Elkabetz. The film, directed by Eran Merav premiered on 17 January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Amidst the circumstances of an absent father and a single mother busy making ends meet and satisfying her boyfriend, the oldest son Meir takes care of his younger brother, Zion and they evident have an inseparable powerful bond. Meirs is there to handle the situation when Zion confesses that a schoolmate has stolen his soccer sneakers. Yet things unravel when the thef seeks a reprisal, and soon Zion understands he’s complicit in a secret only he and Meir share. This pressure and Meir's clashes with their mother's boyfriend leave the fraternal allegiance in disarray.[1]
Ghent International Film Festival
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