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Zaytoun is a British film of genre Drama directed by Eran Riklis released in USA on 20 september 2013 with Stephen Dorff

Zaytoun (2012)

Zaytoun
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Released in USA 20 september 2013
Length 1h47
Directed by
Genres Drama,    War,    Thriller,    Adventure
Rating65% 3.295493.295493.295493.295493.29549

Zaytoun (Hebrew: זייתון‎, Arabic: زيتون‎) is a 2012 Israeli adventure thriller film directed by Eran Riklis and produced by Academy Award-winning producer Gareth Unwin and Fred Ritzenberg. It premiered in September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The screenplay was written by Nader Rizq, a Palestinian-American living in the United States. What started as a hobby in 1991 ended up making the semi-finals of the 2001 Nicholl Fellowships run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Subsequent re-writes again placed in the Nicholls and semi-finaled in the Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards. In late 2007, American producer Fred Ritzenberg came aboard and helped further develop the script.

The film's title is the Arabic word for an olive.

Synopsis

During the 1982 Lebanon War, an Israeli fighter pilot, Yoni, is shot down over Beirut and captured by the Palestine Liberation Organization. Fahed, a precocious young Palestinian refugee who is angered by the death of his father in an Israeli air attack, agrees to help Yoni escape and lead him out of the city if Yoni will get him over the border and back to his family's ancestral village, where Fahed intends to plant an olive tree that his father had been tending in Beirut. As they embark on a hazardous road trip across the war-ravaged country, Yoni and Fahed move from suspicion and mutual antagonism to a tentative camaraderie as they make their way closer to the place they both call home.

Actors

Stephen Dorff

(Yoni)Ashraf Barhom

(Lead PLO Fighter)Alice Taglioni

(Leclair)Mira Awad

(Im Ahmed)Ali Suliman

(Syrian Officer)
And :
Abdallah El Akal
Doraid Liddawi
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