The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret)

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Directed by

Eran Kolirin

Starring (View all)

Sasson Gabai
Lieutenant-colonel Tawfiq Zacharya

Ronit Elkabetz
Dina

Saleh Bakri
Haled

Khalifa Natour
Simon

Rubi Moskovitz
Itzik

Uri Gavriel
Avrum

Hilla Sarjon
Iris

Shlomi Avraham
Papi

Written by

Eran Kolirin

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Description: The Band's Visit is a deeply spiritual comedy about the bridge-making effects of hospitality and the ways music serves as a universal language drawing people together. On an ordinary day, the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event, only find there is no delegation to meet them, nor any arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva. When they find their own ride, they arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, lead by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly lunch owner, Dina, who offers to put ... (more)

Release date: 21 March 2008