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Lebanon
Lebanon
7.3
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1,007 Ratings

LEBANON

Directed by Samuel Maoz
Israel, France, 2009
Drama, War

Synopsis

June 6, 1982. Israeli armed forces enter Lebanon in the First Lebanon War. How is the event seen by four Israeli recruits reduced to the extremely limited perspective of a tank’s peephole? The 20-year-olds are dispatched to search a hostile town—a simple mission that turns into a nightmare.

Synopsis

June 6, 1982. Israeli armed forces enter Lebanon in the First Lebanon War. How is the event seen by four Israeli recruits reduced to the extremely limited perspective of a tank’s peephole? The 20-year-olds are dispatched to search a hostile town—a simple mission that turns into a nightmare.

Our take

Winner of the Golden Lion and described as “Das Boot in a tank,” this gripping, claustrophobic, ingenious war film sprung from the writer/director’s own experiences in the Lebanon War. Few films put the audience so squarely, so viscerally, so unforgettably in the center of the action.