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The Attack

Lebanon, France, Qatar, Egypt, Belgium

2012

102 Min
Color
Hebrew, Arabic
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DIR Ziad Doueiri

PROD Jean Bréhat

SCR Ziad Doueiri, Joelle Touma, Yasmina Khadra

DP Tommaso Fiorilli

CAST Ali Suliman, Evgenia Dodena, Reymond Amsalem, Dvir Benedek, Uri Gavriel, Ruba Salameh, Karim Saleh, Ramzi Makdessi, Eli Gorenstein, Vladimir Friedman, Ezra Dagan, Michael Warshaviak, Hassan Yassine, Ihab Salameh, Mohammed Nabulsi, Nisrine Seksek, Bassem Lulu, Esti Zewko

ED Dominique Marcombe

PROD DES Yoel Herzberg

MUSIC Éric Neveux

Toronto (Special Presentations), Telluride (Show), CPH PIX (Spotlight: Middle East)

Synopsis

An Israeli-Palestinian surgeon, shocked to discover that his wife was involved in a suicide-bomb attack, ventures into Palestinian territory to confront the people who recruited her, in this gripping adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s international bestseller. –TIFF

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LifeofFiction

9Jan13

Seven months after seeing this in Telluride it is still under my skin. If you get the chance, see this film.

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Telluride 2012 Review: THE ATTACK Pierces Middle-Eastern Conflicts

By Twitchfilm.com on September 5, 2012
The complicated situation in Israel, with its uneasy peace and frequent bursts of non-peace between Jews and Arabs, has given rise to numerous compelling stories, and will no doubt continue to do so for
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