Alila
By: a film by Amos Gitai ; directed by Amos Gitai ; screenplay, Amos Gitai, Marie Jose Sanselme ; produced by Michael Tapuach, Amos Gitai ; produced by Hamon Hafakot, Agav Hafakot in association with Arte [France cinéma and others]
Contributors: Berta, Renato, cinematographer; Coleman, Monica, film editor; Netanel, Kobi, film editor; Abecassis, Yael, actor; Klausner, Uri Ran, actor; Laslʼo, Ḥanah, actor; Elkabetz, Ronit, actor; Lavi, Amos, actor; Ḳenaz, Yehoshuʻa; Hamon Hafakot (Firm); Agav Hafakot (Firm); Arte France cinéma (Firm); Kino International Corporation
Publisher: Kino on Video
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: heb
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Apartment dwellers; Drama; Film adaptations; Neighbors; Social interaction
Description: For the apartment dwellers, every action creates a ripple unknowingly felt by all. Goreous libertine Gabi's loud, violent trysts with her physically dominant, emotionally unavailable lover Hezi bring down the wrath of their disgusted neighbors. Mali reluctantly joins her neurotic ex-husband Ezra in his search for their army deserter son. Ezra's illegal construction site and undocumented immigrant workers in turn prompt the hermit Schwartz to relive the horrors of the Nazi death camps, as his Filipino campanion Linda helplessly looks on.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.

Statement of responsibility from ending credits; credits also in Hebrew.

Based on a novel by Yehoshua Kenaz.

Special features: Amos Gitai filmography ; trailers from his films Alila, Kedma, Kippur and Kadosh ; stills gallery.

Container erroneously lists running time as 122 minutes.

Director of photography, Renato Berta ; editors, Monica Coleman, Kobi Netanel ; costume designer, Laura Dinolesko ; production designer, Miguel Markin.

Yael Abecassis, Uri Klauzner, Hanna Laslo, Ronit Elkabetz, Amos Lavie, Lupo Berkowitch, Liron Levo, Amit Mestechkin, Yosef Carmon, Lyn Hsiao Zamir.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD; NTSC format, region 1; letterboxed (1.85:1) presentation; stereo.

Hebrew dialogue, with optional English subtitles.