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Playoff

Playoff

by Eran Riklis

Israel

 

Playoff

Director: Eran Riklis

Screenplay: Gidon Maron, David Akerman

Cinematographer: Rainer Klausmann

Editing: Tova Asher

Art Director: Erwin Prib

Sound: Michael Busch

Music: Cyril Morin

Cast: Danny Huston, Amira Casar, Max Riemelt, Mark Waschke, Hanns Zischler, Irm Hermann, Selen Savas, Yehuda Almagor

Production: Egoli Tossel Films, Topia Communications, Fidélité, United King Films, Wild Bunch

Distribution:
Wild Bunch Distribution
108 rue Vieille du Temple
75003 Paris
France
Tel: 00 33 1 43 13 21 15
Mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
www.wildbunch-distribution.com

Year: 2010

DCP, Color, 107 min, OV Hebrew, English, Romanian with French subtitles

Danny Huston, Best Actor at Montreal Film Festival 2011

In 1982 Israeli basketball coach Max Stoller of German extraction has become a true legend in his country. In constant search of new challenges, he agrees to look after the German national team and takes it to the world championship in Los Angeles. But Max not only needs to train players without motivation not wanting to change their habits, but he must also face attacks from the Israeli press accusing him of treachery. This does not prevent him from pursuing his mission by all means. It might also have to do with the reason why he wanted to come there: to go back on the traces of his childhood which broke one day in 1943. He meets a young woman from Turkish extraction living in the flat where he lived with his parents forty years before. He can see himself in her; he becomes fond of this uprooted woman of today and decides to help her.

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