A comic and episodic satire, the film uses improvisation to illustrate the clash between fantasy and reality in real life. Although conceived in the style of Mekas' "Hallelujah the hills" (1962), it's an authentically Israeli satire, an openly rebellious and individualistic expression that poked fun at the sacred myths of earlier zionist films. The technique of film within the film is used to portray cinema as reflection of the imagination, a miracle based on dreams and fantasies that take on concrete characteristics - parallel to the miracle of Israel, the dream that has become reality. Although not a commercial success, its importance is beyond any measure, though it remains a unique experiment, boldly uncommercial and subversive, out of any context in that patriotic, ideological epoch. A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing business across the way. The two make a living by selling to each other. As there is nothing there, they decide to create a world out of their imagination. They build a cardboard film set, which slowly takes on real dimensions- the buildings turn to concrete, people come to audition for parts in the "film" (cinema verité style, with Zohar mocking viciously the pretensions of the "actresses") and builders come to build appartment buildings (mocking the glorification of concrete and "heroic" settlement). In one sequence, Arab actors come and ask the filmmakers turn positive to negative, and they're given the role of pioneers who plow the land and sing zionist songs. The imagined world of the filmmakers becomes so real eventually they lose sight of the thin line between fantasy and reality. Along the way there are also many references to other films and genres: the samurai flicks of Kurosawa, westerns, the pop films by Richard lester, the meal scene from Tom Jones and many others. The film was made by a bunch of (very talented) friends Zohar gathered, and they shot it with their own funds, as a “collective flick”, another aspect of it that sets it apart from the rest of the production in the country.
罗慧娟,黄子华,甄楚倩
吕良伟,徐峥,闫妮,王迅,于和伟,李晨,曾黎,秦海璐,许亚军,舒耀瑄,佟大为,于谦,曹可凡,耿乐,刘劲,唐国强,卢奇,李岷城,黄俊鹏,印小天,侯勇,曹卫宇,许晴,邵兵,丁海峰,谢孟伟,林永健,吴刚,高曙光,郭东文,姚居德,郭晓东,马晓伟,车晓,赵雍,杨帆,濮存昕,董璇,高鑫,王伍福,陈翔,张晞临,谷伟,王韦智,丹琳,富大龙,郭连文,王政钧,孙继堂,周旭奇,闻杰,闻雨
奥拉·加里多,哈维尔·佩雷伊拉,罗瑞拉·马特奥