Beyond the Walls

(Me'Ahorei hasoragim)

by Uri Barbash

Israel

Director: Uri Barbash

Script: Benny Barbash, Eran Preis, Uri Barbash

Cinematographer: Amnon Salomon

Editor: Tova Ascher

Music: Ilan Virtzberg

Art Director: Rashid Masharawi

Cast: Arnon Zadok, Mohammad Bakri, Assi Dayan, Rami Danon, Boaz Sharabi, Adib Jahschan, Roberto Pollack

Production: April Film, Rudy Cohen

Distribution:
Warner Bros c/o AOL Time Warner
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Year: 1984

35 mm, Colour, 103 min
OV Hebrew & Arab with French Subtitles

International Critics Prize Venice Film Festival 1984

Ordinary prisoners, political prisoners, Jewish and Arabs are living together in a high security prison in Israel. Two clans are opposed, the Israeli side with Uri, a non-political prisoner as their leader, and the Arab side with their leader Issam, a political prisoner condemned for terrorism on account of PLO. They hate each other and when they argue, state terrorism is set against individual terrorism. In fact, they are manipulated by the security officer who allows drug trafficking to better control them. Denounced by the Israelis, Issam is charged with the murder of a drug dealer. Israelis and Arabs are getting together after discovering anote in the hand of the traitor who hanged himself.