A borrowed identity = ʻAravim roḳdim = Ạl'rb ạlrạqṣwn /
A borrowed identity = ʻAravim roḳdim = Ạl'rb ạlrạqṣwn /
Parallel title: ʻAravim roḳdim Also known as : Dancing Arabs Parallel title: Ạl'rb ạlrạqṣwn
Strand Releasing and The Match Factory present ; a UCM, Riva Film, Heimatfilm, Mact Productions, & Alma Film production ; producers, Chilik Michaeli, Michael Eckelt, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon, Bettina Brokemper ; screenplay by Sayed Kashua ; directed by Eran Riklis.
- 1 videodisc (104 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Statement of responsibility from English credits. Credits also in Hebrew and Arabic. Based on the International bestseller "Dancing Arabs" by Sayed Kashua. Special features: Original theatrical trailer ; other Strand trailers.
Music, Yonathan Riklis ; editor, Richard Marizy ; director of photography, Michael Wiesweg. Music, Yonathan Riklis ; editor, Richard Marizy ; director of photography, Michael Wiesweg.
Tawfeek Barhom, Yael Abecassis, Michael Moshonov, Ali Suliman, Danielle Kitzis, Marlene Bajali, Laetitia Eido, Razi Gabareen.
Gifted Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan, a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna. After falling in love with Naomi, a Jewish girl, he leaves school when their relationship is uncovered, and he discovers that he will have to sacrifice his identity in order to be accepted. Faced with a choice, Eyad will have to make a decision that will change his life forever.
Not rated.
DVD.
Hebrew and Arabic dialogue ; English subtitles.
712267350322
3503-2 Strand Releasing
Palestinian Arabs--Israel--Drama.
Friendship in adolescence--Drama.
Boarding school students--Drama.
Jewish-Arab relations--Drama.
Foreign films.
Coming-of-age films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Statement of responsibility from English credits. Credits also in Hebrew and Arabic. Based on the International bestseller "Dancing Arabs" by Sayed Kashua. Special features: Original theatrical trailer ; other Strand trailers.
Music, Yonathan Riklis ; editor, Richard Marizy ; director of photography, Michael Wiesweg. Music, Yonathan Riklis ; editor, Richard Marizy ; director of photography, Michael Wiesweg.
Tawfeek Barhom, Yael Abecassis, Michael Moshonov, Ali Suliman, Danielle Kitzis, Marlene Bajali, Laetitia Eido, Razi Gabareen.
Gifted Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan, a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna. After falling in love with Naomi, a Jewish girl, he leaves school when their relationship is uncovered, and he discovers that he will have to sacrifice his identity in order to be accepted. Faced with a choice, Eyad will have to make a decision that will change his life forever.
Not rated.
DVD.
Hebrew and Arabic dialogue ; English subtitles.
712267350322
3503-2 Strand Releasing
Palestinian Arabs--Israel--Drama.
Friendship in adolescence--Drama.
Boarding school students--Drama.
Jewish-Arab relations--Drama.
Foreign films.
Coming-of-age films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.