Origin: Israel, Palestine | Fiction | Director: Shimon Dotan | 97 minutes

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Based on the book by David Grossman, THE SMILE OF THE LAMB is a contemporary fable about innocence, betrayal, and the gulf between Palestinians and Israelis. Once upon a time in the West Bank, Katzman, a Polish Holocaust survivor, is the military governor. Uri, his best friend, is an idealistic Sephardic doctor serving under him. Hilmi is an aged, eccentric Palestinian who lives in a cave. Uri meets Hilmi and begins to spend more and more time in his vivid and often bizarre dreamworld. But then Uri discovers his wife is having an affair with Katzman, and Hilmi discovers that his son has been killed by Katzman's soldiers in an ambush. Hilmi and Uri concoct a scheme to put an end to these injustices, but their fate has already been sealed. Beautiful cinematography and great Middle-Eastern music. Best Picture, 1986 Israeli Academy Awards.

You can buy this movie here: https://www.amazon.nl/Smile-Lamb-David-Grossman/dp/031242096X

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