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18th(2016)



The Ambassador\'s Wife

Dina RIKLIS

  • Israel
  • 2016
  • 40min
  • DCP
  • color
  • Fiction

Migration/Residence

SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS

YERUSALEM (30) is a beautiful Eritrean woman who was the wife of the Eritrean ambassador in Paris. After his assassination by radical nationalists, she is forced to flee and finds herself an illegal refugee in a decrepit area in southern Tel Aviv, Israel.
 


Program Note

Yerusalem, a wife of Eritrean ambassador to
 France, enjoys her life to the full in high society. After her husband, who
 supports a revolution, is assassinated by his political opponent, she smuggles
 herself into Israel and waits for a couple acquainted with, but staying without
 a visa, any assets and people she knows, she can¡¯t avoid the harsh reality. The
 story follows a structure of Bildungsroman - like ¡®a princess escapes from a
 castle and face the real world¡¯. This film describes striking and radical
 changes and the loss of a number of refugees encounter.
[CHOI Ji Eun]

PROGRAM NOTE

SYNOPSIS

YERUSALEM (30) is a beautiful Eritrean woman who was the wife of the Eritrean ambassador in Paris. After his assassination by radical nationalists, she is forced to flee and finds herself an illegal refugee in a decrepit area in southern Tel Aviv, Israel.
 


Program Note

Yerusalem, a wife of Eritrean ambassador to
 France, enjoys her life to the full in high society. After her husband, who
 supports a revolution, is assassinated by his political opponent, she smuggles
 herself into Israel and waits for a couple acquainted with, but staying without
 a visa, any assets and people she knows, she can¡¯t avoid the harsh reality. The
 story follows a structure of Bildungsroman - like ¡®a princess escapes from a
 castle and face the real world¡¯. This film describes striking and radical
 changes and the loss of a number of refugees encounter.
[CHOI Ji Eun]

Director

  • Dina RIKLISDina RIKLIS

    "Dina Zvi-Riklis graduated from the Theatre Department of Tel Aviv University. She directed award winning feature films, includingA Story that Begins with a Funeral of a Snake (1994), Purple Lawns (1998), Three Mothers (2006), and The Fifth Heaven (2012). She has also directed numerous documentaries.

Credit

  • ProducerGidi AVIVI
  • Cast Ester RADA Yehezkel LAZAROV Yaakov ZADA DANIEL
  • Screenwriter Alma GANIHAR
  • Cinematography Ziv BERKOVICH
  • Art director Tamar MEIR
  • Editor Or LEE-TAL
  • Music Yonatan RIKLIS
  • Sound Aviv ALDEMA