A tale of love and darkness
2016
DVD
Based on the international best seller by Amos Oz, the story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories told, become the stories lived.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (99 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
- digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1
- video file DVD video region 1
- polychrome
Target Audience Note:
- Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
- MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic content and some disturbing violent images.
Notes:
- Based on the book by Amos Oz.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015.
- Title from container.
- Music by Nicolas Britell ; director of photography, Slawomir Idziak ; editor, Andrew Mondshein.
- Natalie Portman, Gilad Kahana, Amir Tessler, Tomer Kapon, Shirra Haas.
- DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- For private home use only.
- Hebrew dialogue; Spanish, English or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 62181309
Control Number: 2020597
UPC: 025192376566
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, [2016]Subjects:
- Israel -- Fiction.
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
- Oz, Amos, 1939-2018 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Bergman, Ram, film producer.
- Black Bicycle Entertainment (Firm), presenter.
- Focus World (Firm), presenter.
- Haas, Shirra, actor.
- Kahana, Gilad, actor.
- Kapon, Tomer, actor.
- Mandil, David, film producer.
- Movie Plus (Firm), production company.
- Portman, Natalie, 1981- screenwriter, film director, actor.
- Tessler, Amir, actor.
- Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.
- Voltage Pictures, presenter.
- motion picture adaptation of (work): Oz, Amos, 1939-2018. Sipur ʻal ahavah ṿe-ḥoshekh. English.