Artistic team
Salma Zidane Hiam Abbass Ali Suliman Ziad Daud Mira Navon-MICHAEL RONA LIPAZ Minister Israel Navon DORON TAVORY Hussam Abu TARIK COPTY Captain Jacob Leibowitz AMOS LAVIE AMNON WOLF
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Director Eran Riklis Writers SUHA Arraf, Eran Riklis Photo Rainer Klausmann
Languages \u200b\u200bArabic, Hebrew and English (VOSE) Length 106 '
HISTORY
Salma Zidane (Hiam Abbass), a widow of 45 years living in a small Palestinian village in the West Bank, declared war on the Israeli defense minister (Doron TAVORY) that has been building a house on the Green Line that divides Israel from the occupied territories, and borders the field Salma lemon. The Israeli army is soon to declare that trees threaten the security minister and ordered to be uprooted. Salma's son lives in America and their daughters are away, but she decides to fight for their trees. He embarks on a journey law that will take up the Supreme Court of Israel. Hire a young Palestinian lawyer, Ziad Daud (Ali Suliman), who will face an army of military lawyers who enjoy government support. Ziad, 34, divorced from a Russian whom he met while studying law in Moscow, falls in love with Salma. But their relationship is complicated and dangerous because the Palestinian widows can not do as they please, and less love, let alone a younger man. Salma realize that you have the strength to move forward in spite of the pressures facing both sides, Israeli and Palestinian. Battle to save the trees his father planted 50 years ago trees that have drawn blood, sweat and tears, as the entire region. Not permit the court to satisfy a security requirement absurd.
Across the field of lemon, Mira Navon (LIPAZ-MICHAEL RONA), the wife of the minister, also going through a major change. After being the perfect wife for many years, despite having a new home and the appointment of her husband, not happy. Know that time passes and begins to be convinced that there must be something more in life. The struggle carried out by his new neighbor, which does not know, forces him to see her husband in a new light and for the first time, do not react as expected.
Lemon Tree is a story of struggle. The fight to protect what is one, the struggle over principles, humanity, earth, history, years of blood, through the struggle of a woman to save her lemon trees. It is a story of loneliness, the loneliness of everyone in this region and its surroundings.
COMMENT
The lemon is a strong, brave adventures that speaks less of a unique case of an entire people: basically, what the film intends to gently but with a critical perspective that does not save your own darts and others, is an undisguised reflection on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
And it does with the ways of a powerful portrait of a woman, sometimes splits into two (the minister's wife will soon understand the views of neighboring crushed).
The film beautifully illustrates the unusual talent of making intelligent and entertaining film from a current issue. This drama, with the Israeli-Palestinian schism as a backdrop, is generously sprinkled with irony, anger and pure optimism. The director Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride) chooses a story near the border and reduces its political components to reach the human level, played with an award-winning security by the Palestinian Hiam Abbass.
But the film is even more so. From the main conflict approach, many issues arise: the crisis in the relationships, the relevance of roots in the construction of a life project, the importance of the age difference in a relationship, the female perspective conflicts, ...
