With Lebanon, we visit the same battlefield as earlier in the animation film Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman. Samuel Maoz is also a soldier who became a filmmaker and he also chose an unusual form for his memories of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Lebanon is entirely set inside a tank. Just like the soldiers themselves, we can only see the outside world through the gunner's sight. The young crew of four - one of them is going to have to shoot at people for the first time - is ordered to assist a platoon in clearing a town. What was supposed to be a tourist outing quickly turns into a chaotic nightmare with plenty of civilian casualties, banned phosphorus shells and Falangists as dubious allies.
A claustrophobic tour de force with which Maoz consciously distances himself from war cliches. In Venice it won the Golden Lion.
- Director
- Samuel Maoz
- Country of production
- Israel
- Year
- 2009
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 94'
- Medium
- 35mm
- Languages
- Arabic, Hebrew
- Producers
- David Silber, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, Sonja Ewers, Ilann Girard
- Production Companies
- Metro Communications, Ariel Films GmbH, Paralite Productions, Arsam International, Zigota Ltd.
- Sales
- Celluloid Dreams
- Screenplay
- Samuel Maoz
- Cinematography
- Giora Bejach
- Editor
- Arik Leibovitch
- Production Design
- Ariel Roshko
- Sound Design
- Alex Claude
- Music
- Nicolas Becker, Benoît Delbecq
- Cast
- Yoav Donat
- Local Distributor
- Cinemien
- Website
- http://www.celluloid-dreams.com/celluloid_dreams_library/k_l/lebanon/