Wedding in Galilee
- IMDb link: 0094229
- IMDb rating: 6.7 (571 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Michel Khleifi
- Cast: Mohamad Ali El Akili, Bushra Karaman, Makram Khoury, Yussuf Abu-Warda and others
- Release date: 1 Jun 1988
- Release year: 1988
- Runtime: 113 minutes
- Country: Belgium, France, West Germany, Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Keywords: bride and groom, dizziness, israeli, written by director, moktar, palestine, threat of violence, wedding night, irony, curfew
Plot
Storyline
A Palestinian father seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. Tensions rise as the ceremony proceeds, with youths plotting violence and a loose horse running into a minefield, forcing unlikely cooperation.
A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Palestinian youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Palestinian women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Palestinians must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?
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