Posts Tagged: Switzerland

The Disabled (Gur Koren)

Genre: Comedy , Romantic Comedy

The Giorns are a mafia family specializing in drug smuggling for the third generation, but they fail to deliver the umpteenth shipment in a row, this time to Macedonia. The client is furious and gives the clan one last chance… At that moment, two actors of the “Fantastic Theater” ring the door and ask for… Read more

iWitness (Joshua Sobol)

Genre: Drama

An Austrian farmer refuses to serve in the Wehrmacht, which he sees as a criminal army. He pays by his life for his refusal.

Krum (Hanoch Levin)

Genre: Comedy

Krum has returned from abroad to his dreary Tel Aviv neighborhood, the same dreary loser as when he left it. He has brought nothing, earned nothing, learned nothing. Wherever life happens, it’s not where he is.

Exile in Jerusaelm (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama , Poetic Drama

A drama based on the last five years of the life of the great German-Jewish poetess Else Lasker Schuller, who fled from Nazi Germany in 1933 and found refuge in Jerusalem where, in spite of her greatness, she died isolated and forgotten.  

I’m Talking to You in Chinese (Savyon Liebrecht)

Genre: Poetic Drama

A 39-year-old daughter of Holocaust survivors enters her dead parents’ old apartment after a twenty-year absence. Engulfed by childhood memories, scenes come to life of herself as a fifteen-year old, her parents and her aunt, who was in love with her brother-in-law. Observing them from a distance and becoming aware of their tragic life, she… Read more