The Milky Way Movie Review 1997

The Palestinian occupants of a small village in the Galilee try to balance their traditions against the Israeli military occupation in 1964. Many of the villagers were traumatized as children by the 1948 war and old fears and resentments linger as the village's mukhtar (Khoury) tries to placate the occupiers. Meanwhile, the Israelis are investigating forged work passes and a village murder leads to trouble for everyone. Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles.

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Available on VHS
Running time 104 minutes.
Originally from Israeli.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Politics, Religion, Period Piece: 1960s, Military: Foreign

Screenplay

Ali Nassar, Ghalib Shaath

Cast

Muhamad Bakri, Suheil Haddad, Makram Khoury, Yussef Abu-Warda

Cinematography

Amnon Salomon

Director

Ali Nassar

Music

Nachum Heiman