The Syrian Bride

The Syrian Bride (Hebrew הכלה הסורית, English film titled The Syrian Bride ) is a film by Israeli director Eran Riklis.

Content

Mona from Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is to marry Syrian TV star Tallel from Damascus. The groom, whom she knows only from television, was chosen for her by her family. In order to marry, she must leave her family forever, because once it has crossed the border to Syria, Mona will never be able to return to their homeland. For months, the marriage is not only the final farewell to her family, her visibly hard, but also a liberation from their traditional constraints. So goes on the wedding day the bride, accompanied by the whole family, with mixed feelings on the way to the border. But here the planned wedding for months suddenly seems to fail due to unexpected bureaucratic obstacles along the border guards.

Criticism

" The Syrian Bride is a thoughtful, sad and yet hilarious film about the absurdities that creates high politics and the very immediate and practical life impact on the lives of ' ordinary people ', has a powerful parable on the Middle East conflict, in which which is only Graceful Stoic composure and resignation to fate of the young bride. Interesting! "

" The Syrian Bride is a political film, which deals with the impact of intergovernmental decisions on the private lives of people affected apart and criticized on this unspectacular but very effective way. "

" ... Glossed neither side, but paints a very realistic picture very surreal situation. In which [... ] the men defiantly insist on their positions, while women gentle, dare small changes. Seen in " The Syrian Bride ", a film emancipation, with border crossings in the real and figurative sense. A moving work that has a clear political message and not in front of it wears like the demonstrators in the film. "

" It is a modern social panorama of Balzac'schen proportions and Riklis tears - and that never loses its wit in addition to all oppressions. In the end, it all comes down to the border, which must exceed Mona, and how they produce the Israeli and Syrian officials a bureaucratic duel ... "

" The cleverly composed tragicomedy illustrates the individual fate of the arbitrariness of the policy. She makes the ditches and borders visible that separate not only nations, but also families, and which can be apparently overcome by personal courage. "

Awards

The film has won audience awards the Locarno Film Festival in 2004 and the World Film Festival in Montreal 2004 and the Prize of the Jury of the Festival Bastia 2004.

It was also the film with seven nominations at the Israeli Film Award Ophir Award consideration ( Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Costume Design)

He also received two nominations at the 2005 European Film Awards, once for the best film music by Cyril Morin and Hiam Abbass for the Jameson Audience Award for Best Actress

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