Life According to Agfa
Life According to Agfa | |
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Directed by | Assi Dayan |
Produced by |
Rafi Bukai Yoram Kislev |
Written by | Assi Dayan |
Starring | Gila Almagor |
Music by | Naftali Alter |
Cinematography | Yoav Kosh |
Edited by | Zohar Sela |
Release dates |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Israel |
Language | Hebrew |
Life According to Agfa (Hebrew: החיים על פי אגפא) is a 1993 Israeli drama film directed by Assi Dayan.
Plot
The plot revolves around one night in a small Tel Aviv pub whose employees and patrons represent a microcosm of Israeli society – men and women, Jews and Arabs, Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, kibbutzniks[1] and city-dwellers. When an aggressive group of chauvinistic army soldiers is thrown out of the pub for provoking a waitress and one of the kitchen workers, they return and spray the indifferent group of party-goers with bullets.
Cast
- Gila Almagor as Daliah
- Akram Tillawi as Samir
- Smadar Kilchinsky as Daniela
- Sharon Alexander as Nimi
- Shmil Ben Ari as Levi
- Avital Dicker as Ricky
- Irit Frank as Liora
- Ezra Kafri as Eli
- Danny Litani as Czerniak
- Barak Negbi as Sammy
- Rivka Neuman as Malka
- Shuli Rand as Benny
Critical reception
Life According to Agfa received near-unanimous critical acclaim, winning an Ophir Award for Best Film, and did moderately well at the box office.[2] The film also received Honourable Mentions at the Jerusalem and Berlin Film Festivals,[3] and was entered for the film festivals in Toronto, Montpellier, Calcutta and Singapore.
Dubbed by one writer a "stylized nightmare of self-annihilation",[2] it has since become one of Israeli cinema's most important films.[4]
References
- ↑ For a discussion of the theme of the kibbutz and its "mythology" in Life According to Agfa, see Eldad Kedem, The Kibbutz and Israeli Cinema: Deterritorializing Representation and Ideology (PhD, University of Amsterdam, 2007), pp. 133-37 (retrieved 13 November 2012).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Judd Ne'eman, "Israeli Cinema," in O. Leaman, ed., Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film (Routledge, 2001), p. 268.
- ↑ "Berlinale: 1993 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
- ↑ "Agfa according to those who lived it", Haaretz (23 December 2011) (retrieved 13 November 2012).