Walk on Water

A year after the death of Morris Mendevon his son Nissim has a strange dream. In the dream, his father appears and orders him to reopen the old neighborhood cinema he had shut down twenty five years before his death. On that very day Avram Medevon, Morris' brother, returns to the neighborhood after an absence of many years.

The Mendevon sons decide to screen the famous Indian film "Sangam" which used to be an old time neighborhood hit. Their mother Seniora does not approve of the screening ,but they insist. While searching for "Sangam" they find out that Avram Mendevon holds the only copy of the film but he will give it to them on one condition... As the brothers persist with their quest new family secrets are to be revealed. Desperado Square" is a film about people who have missed their great love ,and are trying to create their future.This is a film about the love of cinema.It is also the story of a colorful neighborhood, in the outskirts of the big city.


Crew

Directed by - Eytan Fox

Produced by - Amir Harel & Gal Uchovsky

Co produced by - Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, Dodi Zilber, Micky Rabinovitz

Written by - Gal Uchovsky

Director of Photography - Tobias Hochstein

Editor - Yosef Grunfeld

Original Music - Ivri Lider

Sound Designer - Gil Toren

Art Directors - Avi Fahima –Israel / Christoph Merg- Berlin

Costume Design - Rona Doron –Israel / Peter Pohl – Berlin

Make Up Artist - Galia Azoulay

Script Doctor - Stuart Schoffman

Cast

Eyal - Lior Ashkenazi

Axel Himmelman - Knut Berger 

Pia Himmelman - Caroline Peters

Rafik – Yousef 'Joe' Sweid

Axel's Father - Hanns Zischler

Axel's Mother - Carola Regnier

Menachem - Gideon Shemer



Details

Drama, 104 min.

35 mm

Language: English / Hebrew

Subtitles: English / Hebrew 

Lama Films, Israel Film Fund, Hot, Medea, Celluloid Dreams, United

Festivals & Awards

Cesar Awards - Nominated for the Best Foreign Film 

International Film Festival Berlin 2004, Panorama - Opening Film

Israeli Academy Awards - Original Score and Sound Designer 2004

Toronto Film Festival 2004  

Melbourne Film Festival 2004   

International Film Festival Moscow 2004

International Film Festival Warsaw 2004

International Film Festival Seville 2004


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