Knafayim Shvurot (2002)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Nir Bergman

Writer:

Nir Bergman (writer)

Release Date:

24 lokakuu 2002 (Israel)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.

Plot Keywords:

Death | Children | Musician | Tragedy Child | Dead Father

Awards:

15 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Orly Silbersatz Banai	...	Dafna Ulman
Maya Maron	...	Maya Ulman
Daniel Magon	...	Ido Ulman
Nitai Gvirtz	...	Yair Ulman
Eliana Magon	...	Bahr Ulman
Vladimir Friedman	...	Dr. Valentin Goldman
Dana Ivgy	...	Iris
Yarden Bar-Kochba	...	Flora, School Counselor
Danny Niv	...	Yoram (as Danny "mooki" Niv)
Orit Boger	...	Teacher
Nimrod Cohen	...	Gaga
Eitan Green	...	The Father
Martin Umanski	...	Video Photographer
Shira Vilenski
Lobo Wizner	...	Band member

Also Known As:

Broken Wings (UK) (literal English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for some language, brief nudity and drug use.

Runtime:

87 min | Switzerland:84 min

Country:

Israel

Language:

Hebrew

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Philippines:PG-13 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Carmelit Subway, Haifa, Israel

Company:

Israeli Film Fund

Trivia:

Ido and Bahr are played by real-life brother and sister Daniel and Eliana Magon.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Historia Shel Hakolnoah Israeli (2009)

Soundtrack:

Knafa'im Shvurot

An exception to a depressing rule

There seems to be a whole genre of films recently ,the theme of which is young people's daunting search for purpose in life in a world where external sources of values are no longer accepted. I am thinking of "Garden State," "I Heart Huckabees," "Closer " etc. The consensus, so to speak, if these movies are to be taken as a mirror of reality, is that there is no purpose to be found, and the only grounds for relating to other human beings at all is sexual attraction, or its concomitant sexual competition. In fact, I watched this film and "Thirteen" together, and found them strangely parallel. I mention all this because Knafayim Shvurot is different from all the others in a small but fundamental respect: here the characters have not quite given up the search. Perhaps this reflects a difference between Israeli culture which, jaded though it is, is indisputably younger, and American culture which seems to be declining into both hedonism and vicious religiosity. I didn't realize it while I was watching, but was somehow not surprised to notice afterward that the "family" of characters is played by a real-life family. I couldn't help wondering how the experience affected them...