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A coming-of-age saga set against the tense backdrop of Arab-Israeli politics. Mendy is a young Rabbinical... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Oren Rehany | ... | Mendy |
 | Tchelet Semel | ... | Natasha "Sasha" Sonsova |
 | Saul Stein | ... | Mike |
| Albert Iluz | ... | Razi |
| Aryeh Moskona | ... | The Exterminator (as Ariel Moskuna) |
| Alon Dahan | ... | Reb Nocham (Mendy's Rabbi) |
| Mosko Alkalai | ... | Professor Milan (as Moscu Alcalay) |
| Liat Bein | ... | Mendy's Mother |
| Yehoyachin Friedlander | ... | Mendy's Father |
| Lanny Shahaf | ... | Exterminator's Wife |
| Lupo Berkowitch | ... | Daryl (as Lupo Berkowitz) |
| Arie Hassfari | ... | Jamal (schoolboy) |
| Harel Noff | ... | Hobo Priest |
| Icho Avital | ... | Bar Patron |
| Louise Asher | ... | Screaming Lady |
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Went to see this film with three other couples and not one of us eight thought it was worth anything. It sure does show the seedy side of Israel, the nude pole dancer and hooker Sasha plying her trade were quite unusual pitted against the pais swinging Talmudic students and scholarly Rabbis and all against the backdrop of the never ending civil strife with the Palestinians however it was so darn draggy and monotonous,the whole thing became unbearable.
And the ending proved that no matter how congenial to one another Jews and Arabs are,it's superficial and meaningless. I would say the film was certainly pro-Palestinian made by Jews over there who resent their own "occupation" of a land foretold as theirs. A land over which they died in wars foisted upon them by the Arabs who resented any "flowers" growing amid their desolate sand dunes. And the beat goes on until there is once again a major war which is inevitable.