Waltz with Bashir

Jun 12, 2008

1h 30m

★ 7.7

One man's journey to uncover his past.

Overview

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

Genres

Drama

Animation

War

Documentary

Production Companies

Les Films d'Ici

Razor Film Produktion

ITVS International

ARTE

Bridgit Folman Film Gang

YLE

RTBF

SBS

Waltz with Bashir Trailers

Cast

Self (voice)

Ari Folman

Boaz Rein-Buskila (voice)

Mickey Leon

Self (voice)

Ori Sivan

Carmi Cna'an (voice)

Yehezkel Lazarov

Self (voice)

Ronny Dayag

Self (voice)

Shmuel Frenkel

Self (voice)

Zahava Solomon

Self (voice)

Ron Ben-Yishai

Self (voice)

Dror Harazi

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