The Farewell Party

Sep 3, 2014

1h 30m

★ 6.5

Overview

A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of the machine begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with an emotional dilemma

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Pallas Film

Pie Films

Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion

2-Team Productions

United King Films

The Farewell Party Trailers

Cast

Yehezkel

Ze'ev Revach

Levana (as Levana Finkelshtein)

Levana Finkelstein

Yana

Alisa Rozen

Dr. Daniel

Ilan Dar

Raffi Segal

Rafael Tabor

Carmon (as Josef Carmon)

Yosef Carmon

Noa (as Hilla Surjon)

Hila Sorjon-Fisher

Zelda

Ruth Geller

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