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An Intimate Story

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Director
  
Nadav Levitan

Written by
  
Nadav Levitan

Writer
  
Nadav Levitan

Language
  
Hebrew

7.6/10
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Initial release
  
1981

Duration
  

Country
  
Israel

An Intimate Story movie poster
Cast
  
Chava Alberstein, Shmuel Shiloh

Similar movies
  
Kibbutz movies, Movies about Israelis, Dramas

An Intimate Story (Hebrew: סיפור אינטימי‎) is a 1981 Israeli drama directed by Nadav Levitan. It was based on a short story written by Levitan and filmed in its entirety on Kibbutz Einat.

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Plot

The film follows a married couple, Leah (Chava Alberstein) and Ya'akov (Alexander Peleg), who live on a kibbutz in the 1970s. Over a period of ten years, all of their attempts to conceive a child have been unsuccessful and their marriage begins to disintegrate as each suffers silently and blames the other. Their difficulties are compounded – and the damaging effects of the lack of privacy in an insular communal environment underscored – when their inability to conceive becomes a matter of public knowledge and gossip among the kibbutz members.

Cast

  • Chava Alberstein as Leah Gootman
  • Alexander Peleg as Ya'akov
  • Dan Toren
  • Gilat Ankori
  • Peter Freistadt
  • Shmuel Shilo
  • Shmuel Wolf
  • Production

    Levitan met his future wife, Chava Alberstein, on the set of the film.

    References

    An Intimate Story Wikipedia
    An Intimate Story IMDb