Israel 1988
Language: Hebrew
Subtitles: English
Director: Renen Schorr
Camera: Eitan Harris
Script: Doron Nesher, Renen Schorr
Editor: Shlomo Chazan , Shlomo Hazan
Cast: Sharon Bar-Ziv, Ada Ben-Nahum, Vered Cohen
Producer: Ilan De Vries, Doron Nesher, Renen Schorr
Music: Rafi Kadishzon
Distributer: Israeli Films
Color: Farbe
Age Limit: <

Israel’s answer to HAIR (1979), shot for a fraction of the budget, that Miloš Forman was provided to for his Hollywood anti-establishment High Mass, filled with music and dancing. Because: In difference to the post-Vietnam War- USA, a skeptical view on conscription is not appreciated by the official Israel. That is why BLUES LAHOFESH HAGADOL emerged apart from established production patterns. The simple story about a group of high school students just before their conscription set in 1970 (in between the Six Day War and Jom Kippur War) is a cult movie and points at the real, embittered, relationship between many Israelis and their army ...