Jaffa

Jaffa

2009•1h 46m•5.9/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.9/10(18)

In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives. Jaffa is a mixed Arabic - Jewish seaside city near Tel Aviv, where Reuven Wolf (Moni Moshonov) has a garage for repairing cars. His wife Ossi (Ronit Elkabetz), a vain, self-centered woman, just makes everybody's life difficult. The couple's daughter, Mali Wolf (Dana Ivgy), has secretly fallen in love with her childhood friend, the young Toufik (newcomer Mahmud Shalaby), a hard-working youth who has come as a helping hand to his Israeli-Arab father Hassan, a long-time mechanic working for Reuven.

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Production

MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Bizibi, Transfax Film Productions, Rohfilm, Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project, Keshet Broadcasting, Canal+, ARTE France Cinéma

Language

HE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Dana Ivgy

Dana Ivgy

Mali Wolf

Moni Moshonov

Moni Moshonov

Reuven Wolf

Ronit Elkabetz

Ronit Elkabetz

Osnat 'Ossi' Wolf

Hussein Yassin Mahajne

Hassan

Roy Assaf

Roy Assaf

Meir Wolf

Lili Ivgy

Lili Ivgy

Shiran Wolf

Zenabh Mahrab

Naima

Suma Zenabh

Evtesam

Dalia Beger

Aunt Suzi

Mahmoud Shalaby

Mahmoud Shalaby

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