But Where Is Daniel Wax?

But Where Is Daniel Wax?

1974•1h 35m•8.0/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

8.0/10(6)

10 years after he left Israel and "played it big-time in America", Benny Shpitz returns for a visit, self-exploring his youth, friends, dreams, beliefs and idol, Daniel Wax, who symbolized the "beautiful Israeli". Shpitz finds out his friends are melancholic, unsatisfied with marriage life, hiding a vast hole in their sole. In a wider context, Israel post 67' will no longer be the society that it was meant to be.

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Language

HE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Lior Yieniy

Esther Zewko

Yael Heffner

Zivit Abramson

Miriam Gavrieli

Yosef Carmon

Aliza Rosen

Aliza Rosen

Amnon Moskin

Yishai Shahar

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