Bikur ha-tizmoret / The Band's Visit

Eran Kolirin: / ביקור התזמורת / Bikur ha-tizmoret / The Band's Visit (US/FR/IL 2007).

/ ביקור התזמורת / Orkesterin vierailu / Orkesterns besök. US/FR/IL © 2007 July August Productions / Bleiberg Entertainment / Sophie Dulac Productions. D+SC: Eran Kolirin. DP: Shai Goldman – 35 mm – 1:1,85. Sasson Gabai (Lt-col Tawfiq Zacharya), Ronit Elkabetz (Dina), Saleh Bakri (Haled), Khalifa Natour (Simon). 89 min. Bilingual in Hebrew and Arabic. Released in Finland by Buena Vista International, with Finnish / Swedish subtitles by Marko Hartama / Marko Hietikko. Viewed in Kino-Palatsi, Helsinki, 12 April 2008. – The police band of Alexandria pays a visit to Israel and gets into a wrong station. – Laconic, minimalist humour resembling Milos Forman and Jim Jarmusch, yet completely original.