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Late Summer Blues is a israelien film of genre Drama
Late Summer Blues (1987)
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Add to a movie listLate Summer Blues is a 1987 Israeli film directed by Renen Schorr. It is a story about a group of Israeli teens in their last summer before army service. They all experience different conflicts about joining the army. One of them cannot join the army because he is diabetic. One of them does not want to join the army because he is a pacifist. Another is conflicted between joining an elite group in the army like his older brothers and joining the army band like his new girlfriend. A fourth is excited to train to be a paratrooper when he is killed in training. As a result of his death, his friends change their high-school graduation play, and launch a protest musical.
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