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A Tale of Love and Darkness

Summary: The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as...

Release Date: August 19, 2016

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Natalie Portman

Writers: Natalie Portman

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Focus World, Avi Chai fund, Gesher Fund, Handsomecharlie Films, Israel Film Council, Israeli Film Fund, Jerusalem Film and Television Fund, Keshet Broadcasting, Mountaintop Productions, Movie Plus productions, Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project, Ram Bergman Productions, Recanati Foundation, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports

Distributor: Focus Features

Countries: Israel, United States

Language: Hebrew

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 572,212

International: $ 152,673

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10 year old 3 year old adultery anti semitism apology arab arab israeli conflict arab soldier arabic archive footage armistice arson ayalon river band aid on chin banging on a door based on book bath bathtub bedtime story being followed being watched best friend bird biscuit blood blurry vision bomb shelter book bookstore borscht box of matches boy boy follows his mother boy in a bathtub boy lifted into the air brain briefcase british mandate for palestine broken chain link brother brother relationship brother sister relationship bully bullying burning hut bus cake card playing cat cauliflower celebration chandelier cheating husband chess chicken as food childhood childlessness chin wound chirping bird cigarette smoking civil war class classical music classroom climbing a tree close up of eye clothesline collecting bottles colonel congratulations conspiracy cooking crying woman curfew cutting one's finger dancing in the streets dead body death death of friend death of mother death of wife death symbol deception depression desert directed by star directorial debut doctor drawing of lips dream drink drinking drowning drowning woman eating electric iron english etymology europe explosion extramarital affair eyeglasses f rated face slap family relationships fantasy sequence father and son share a bed father in law daughter in law relationship father son relationship fez finger bandage fire flash forward flashback flooding flowers folding laundry following someone food footbridge foreign occupation forest fox french friend friendship garden gasoline geese genocide gentile german ghost town girl giving a toast glass of milk grandfather grandson relationship grandmother grandson relationship grief gunfire gunshot gypsy hammer headache hebrew hitting one's thumb with a hammer holding a gun to one's head horseradish howling like a fox hunger husband wife relationship hut ill mother ill wife imitating an airplane india infidelity injured little boy innocence insomnia ironing israel israeli israeli army israeli flag israeli independence israeli national guard israeli soldier jacket jeep jerusalem jew jewish journey jumping into water kibbutz kiss kiss on the forehead knight knocking on a door laughter laundry drying on a clothesline lawyer lie listening to a radio listening to music lithuanian little boy looking at oneself in a mirror looking in a window looking out a window machine gun marriage melancholia memory menu migraine mirror monk montage mother combs son's hair mother daughter relationship mother gives son a bath mother in law daughter in law relationship mother shares a bed with her son mother son relationship murder murder of a boy murder of a friend murder of a woman name calling neighbor newsreel footage note novelist old man overdose overhearing a conversation paradise party peace pharmacist pharmacy pills pioneer pipe smoking pistol poem poet poetry pogrom poland polish polish soldier poster prayer shawl prologue promise to marry propaganda pulled by the arm radio radio news rain reading a book reading a book in bed reciting poetry record player recording reference to anton chekhov reference to david ben gurion reference to garibaldi reference to greta garbo reference to hayim nahman bialik reference to king abdullah reference to levin kipnis reference to ludwig van beethoven reference to peru reference to plato reference to shaul tchernichovsky reference to sheikh jarrah israel reference to vladimir jabotinsky restaurant revised scene revolutionary riot rovno poland rovno ukraine rug russian sabbath sandwich saved from drowning saving a life school school bell schoolyard schoolyard fight scolding screaming for help seagull sedative self punishment servant shaving shooting shot in the chest singer singing sister sister relationship sitting in the rain sitting under a table sitting under a tree slamming a door slapping own face sleeping in a chair sleeping pills slow motion scene smelling a book soccer soldier solidarity solitude song sosenki forest poland spider stethoscope story telling subjective camera suicide suicide by fire suicide by gunshot suitcase suntan surprise surrogate son swing tarzan imitation teacher teenage boy tel aviv israel telephone telephone call throwing mud thunder title directed by female tolling bell tractor typewriter ukrainian umbrella uncle nephew relationship unfaithfulness upside down camera shot village voice over narration voting vow waiter war rationing watching someone water well window worker writer year 1945 year 1947 younger version of character

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