No Names on the Doors
No Names on the Doors is a 1997 Israeli drama directed by Nadav Levitan. The film was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Montpellier Film Festival, the Shanghai International Film Festival, and the Melbourne International Film Festival. It received five nominations for an Ophir Award including Best Actor and Best Screenplay and Best Soundtrack.
No Names on the Doors was shot entirely in Kibbutz Yakum and is the third film in director Levitan's trilogy about Israeli kibbutzim, following An Intimate Story and Stalin's Disciples.
Nahum Heiman composed the music. The piece for flute, "The Journey to Jerusalem," has been played for many years as the opening theme for morning broadcasts on Reshet Bet.
Plot
The film is set on a modern kibbutz as the spectre of an Arab invasion lurks in the background and financial pressures are breaking down traditional communal values. A series of fragile, interwoven stories mirror this disintegration of collective ideals: a longstanding friendship between two 40-year-old bachelors ends tragically when one decides to get married; a bereaved father is embarrassed to find himself attracted to his dead son's girlfriend ; and a mother perpetuates the memory of her dead son by tending to his room as a memorial. At the same time, an elderly man discovers a new, more loving relationship with his intellectually-disabled adult son.Cast
- Chava Alberstein as Adina
- Mosko Alkalai as Kuba
- Assi Dayan as Uzi
- Avi Pnini as Israel
- Micha Selekter as Amos
- Dorit Lev-Ari as Aya
- Danni Bassan as Mordi
- Dan Wolman as Joseph
- Abraham Sandberg as GP
- Louise Zarchi as Shoshana
- Hekena Wallport as Suskia
- Shlomo Tarshish as Ely
- Meir Swissa as Simcha