Broken Wings Movie Review 2002

Writer/director Bergman's touching feature debut about an Israeli family's inability to cope with the recent loss of patriarch David. Widow Dafna Ulman (Zilberschatz-Banai) takes up working odd shifts as a midwife for a local hospital, forcing 17-year-old daughter Maya (Maron) to put her music career on hold to care for younger siblings Ido (Daniel Magon) and Bahr (Eliana Magon). Faring little better is 16-year-old son Yair (Gvirtz), who has thrown away a potential basketball career by dropping out of school and now passes out leaflets in the subway dressed in a mouse costume. Things suddenly go from bad to worse, forcing the Ulmans into crisis mode. Simply told but very effective human drama. In Hebrew with subtitles.

Distribution

Not Yet Released

Available on DVD
Running time 83 minutes.
Originally from Israeli.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Family Drama, Parenthood, Single Parents, Israel

Screenplay

Nir Bergman

Cast

Orly Silbersatz Banai, Maya Maron, Nitai Gaviratz, Valdimir Friedman, Dana Ivgi, Danny Niv, Daniel Magon, Eliana Magon

Cinematography

Valentin Belonogov

Director

Nir Bergman

Music

Avi Bellili

Other

David Lis, Einat Glaser-Zarhin, Ido Dolev, Ada Levin

Producer

Assaf Amir, Israel Film Fund, Sony Pictures Classics