Bikur Ha Tizmoret The Band s Visit

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00:00:49 A film by Eran Kolirin
00:01:36 Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian
00:01:42 Not many remember this,
00:02:30 It's not them...
00:02:43 There's a bus, we have the address,
00:02:47 And manage on our own?
00:02:50 Why not call the Embassy?
00:02:54 This band has managed on its own
00:02:57 I have no intention
00:03:01 Especially not now...
00:03:12 Picture please,
00:03:14 We're taking a photo.
00:03:45 THE BAND'S VISIT
00:03:58 Municipality, good morning.
00:03:59 Good morning.
00:04:00 This is Tewfiq Zakaria, commander of
00:04:04 What?
00:04:06 It is Tewfiq Zakaria, from the
00:04:09 Who do you need?
00:04:12 As I said,
00:04:15 it is Tewfiq Zakaria
00:04:16 from the Alexandria Ceremonial
00:04:40 Municipality, good morning.
00:04:41 This is Colonel Tewfiq Zakaria
00:05:07 Do you see it?
00:05:18 Get Khaled, tell him
00:05:39 Do you mind asking
00:05:42 Bet Hatikva.
00:05:44 You'd better send someone else.
00:05:49 Do you want to be part
00:05:51 Then learn to take responsibility.
00:05:58 Just watch out, okay?
00:06:02 Of what?
00:06:03 I don't know,
00:06:31 Bet Hatikva?
00:06:34 Yes, Bet Hatikva.
00:06:44 You have eyes...
00:06:46 Very beautiful eyes.
00:06:50 Do you like Chet Baker?
00:06:52 What?
00:06:53 Chet Baker.
00:07:16 I play violin...
00:07:19 But I play trumpet...
00:07:22 also.
00:07:48 About the new piece
00:07:51 do you want me to conduct?
00:07:54 If you do, I'll need to work
00:07:59 We're in enough trouble as it is,
00:08:02 Some other time.
00:08:08 Of course.
00:08:10 But...
00:08:11 If their plan at headquarters
00:08:16 there might not be another time.
00:08:19 Their plan
00:08:23 That's why we're here,
00:08:25 isn't that so?
00:08:32 We had three concerts
00:08:35 two in June.
00:08:37 No one should speak to us
00:08:41 The Alexandria Police Ceremonial
00:10:27 Line them up.
00:10:44 Good afternoon.
00:10:46 Dina, come here.
00:10:48 Some General
00:11:01 Good afternoon.
00:11:02 Good afternoon to you, too.
00:11:04 I wonder if you could be so kind to
00:11:09 Excuse me?
00:11:10 We've been invited by the
00:11:13 at the initiation ceremony
00:11:16 What?
00:11:18 Where are you from?
00:11:19 We are from Egypt.
00:11:21 Egypt?
00:11:24 We are the Alexandria
00:11:27 There is no Arab Center here.
00:11:31 No Arab Culture Center?
00:11:32 No culture. Not Israeli culture,
00:11:37 Bloody nowhere.
00:11:47 Who invited you?
00:11:57 The Betah Tikva Cultural Department.
00:12:00 Petah Tikva?
00:12:02 I think he needs Petah Tikva.
00:12:04 Betah Tikva.
00:12:47 As soon as we get back, you are to
00:12:50 I'll make sure you will not stay
00:12:54 Is that clear?
00:12:56 Clear?
00:13:28 General, you need help, General?
00:13:40 Assholes!
00:14:00 Aren't we eating today?
00:14:08 Excuse me?
00:14:10 I asked if we're going to eat.
00:14:12 I did not join the police
00:14:15 And anyhow, I'm not really sure
00:14:21 Pardon me?
00:14:26 Does anyone else feel like Khaled?
00:14:29 We haven't eaten
00:14:32 All of us.
00:14:37 Just a second...
00:14:41 Khaled, would you mind...
00:14:49 They haven't eaten
00:14:51 this might affect their playing.
00:14:54 Perhaps we could organize something
00:14:57 After that,
00:15:17 Hello again, General.
00:15:20 Madame, I would like...
00:15:23 on behalf of the Alexandria
00:15:31 we shall be grateful if you
00:15:35 in light of the circumstances.
00:15:39 How can I help you?
00:15:42 Would it be possible to dine here?
00:15:46 It's a restaurant here, no?
00:15:48 Yes, but...
00:15:50 we have little Israeli money left.
00:15:54 just some bread, something light.
00:15:56 Could we pay with Egyptian money?
00:16:09 Don't take this disciplinary
00:16:12 It's all bullshit.
00:16:14 Say you're sorry and you'll
00:16:17 He can fire me for all I care.
00:16:20 Did I spend five years
00:16:24 Playing marches in the desert?
00:16:28 How can you stand him?
00:16:33 Ask Simon what it's like to be
00:16:36 Simon, are you conducting
00:17:41 Why did you stop?
00:17:42 I didn't finish it.
00:17:48 You wrote this?
00:17:49 Yes.
00:17:51 It's an overture for a concerto
00:17:55 but I didn't finish it.
00:18:48 Backgammon?
00:18:55 What do you say about that?
00:19:03 We shall be going soon.
00:19:09 You're welcome.
00:19:12 You decided what to do?
00:19:14 We shall manage.
00:19:17 There is no more bus today.
00:19:20 No more bus?
00:19:21 No. Finished.
00:19:25 Hotel?
00:19:27 Hotel? Here?
00:19:31 Of course.
00:19:36 When is your show?
00:19:38 It is tomorrow evening.
00:19:46 Say, ltzik...
00:19:49 Can you take three of them?
00:19:51 What?
00:19:53 Musicians.
00:19:56 Take them where?
00:19:58 What's the big deal? Two
00:20:01 I'll take three, four here,
00:20:04 I don't know.
00:20:06 We'll manage something.
00:20:08 Give me a break,
00:20:11 Even better.
00:20:18 You know what, General?
00:20:19 You can stay here with us
00:20:23 What do you mean, here?
00:20:24 Here, with us.
00:20:28 I can take some,
00:20:30 Papi can make room here,
00:20:32 I have some room in the restaurant
00:20:35 It's okay,
00:20:37 Tomorrow morning you take
00:20:41 No, no, thank you.
00:20:45 We shall call our Embassy,
00:20:52 Okay.
00:20:53 But just I want you to know that
00:20:57 we shall be very honored to have the
00:21:02 Really.
00:21:08 Will your husband agree to that?
00:21:16 Once when I see him I ask him.
00:21:19 You're not married.
00:21:21 Me?
00:21:22 No.
00:21:26 By the way, I'm Dina.
00:21:29 Tewfiq.
00:21:33 What do you say?
00:21:36 Please.
00:21:39 Please.
00:21:42 We'll spend the night here.
00:21:44 No shit.
00:21:45 Khaled!
00:21:48 I hope there's no need to remind you
00:21:52 nor of the effect
00:21:56 on our struggle over
00:22:00 Please bare in mind:
00:22:03 and I expect you all to conduct
00:22:07 We need to carry out
00:22:10 and prove to whoever needs proof
00:22:14 Let's all protect the good name of
00:22:20 Good luck to you all.
00:22:22 Khaled stays with me.
00:22:35 We'll spend the night here,
00:22:43 So, you come?
00:23:11 How are you, Mrs. Maimon?
00:23:33 I'm not...
00:23:34 I don't open it too much.
00:23:38 Do you prefer the wall
00:23:43 So...
00:23:45 Coffee?
00:23:47 Yes.
00:24:15 What are you looking at?
00:24:20 Come, bring us coffee.
00:24:34 Very quiet here.
00:24:36 Dead.
00:24:41 Alexandria is a big city, yes?
00:24:44 A lot of people, and lights.
00:24:46 And noise.
00:24:48 It's good. You feel you live,
00:24:52 You don't like to be here?
00:24:56 It's my life. I got used.
00:24:58 But sometimes...
00:25:01 Sometimes I think maybe I could...
00:25:07 Why didn't you?
00:25:09 I met my first husband.
00:25:11 And you, General? Do you have
00:25:18 A wife?
00:25:20 No, no.
00:25:39 Maybe after, if you want,
00:25:44 No thank you, Madame,
00:25:48 It's no big deal.
00:25:51 There is a place,
00:25:53 Nice, some food, some drink.
00:25:57 The woman wants to go out,
00:26:02 You want to come too, Khaled?
00:26:04 No thank you, Madame.
00:26:24 How do I look?
00:26:26 Very fine, indeed.
00:26:31 Would you say
00:26:41 Don't you want to take
00:26:43 Excuse me?
00:26:45 It's very hot with a hat.
00:26:52 Yes.
00:26:55 It's better, no?
00:26:58 A man should not hide
00:27:03 Got yourself a General, Dina?
00:27:05 What's up?
00:27:06 Soon. She'll call
00:27:09 God help you.
00:27:19 Oh, sorry!
00:27:23 It's okay.
00:27:25 You saw this boy?
00:27:28 Every night he waits
00:27:35 Oh, shit! I forgot!
00:27:36 Look, can you...
00:27:40 With the key.
00:27:54 Almost a month it's like this.
00:28:53 Sorry.
00:28:59 You know,
00:29:02 Happy birthday.
00:29:04 Thank you.
00:29:05 Many happy years.
00:29:06 Thank you.
00:29:10 See they're alright?
00:29:14 Nice people, right?
00:29:16 Why shouldn't they be?
00:29:17 So you're awake?
00:29:20 Very nice.
00:29:21 Too bad they don't visit
00:29:23 You should invite them more often.
00:29:28 So what do you do in the
00:29:31 I play the clarinet,
00:29:41 Well, sometimes.
00:29:43 You know, Avrum,
00:29:46 A concerto?
00:29:48 Before, in the restaurant,
00:29:51 Well, it's not really a concerto,
00:29:56 We're all going to cry now...
00:29:59 Schubert.
00:30:02 Why not finish?
00:30:04 I started to write this after
00:30:09 but then, my wife,
00:30:12 time, and...
00:30:18 Do you work in the restaurant?
00:30:24 Not really. I'm between works now.
00:30:27 Between for almost a year.
00:30:33 It's clean, okay?
00:30:38 He should be saying thank you,
00:30:43 You know, I also played
00:30:48 There he goes again.
00:30:50 I used to play at...
00:30:53 weddings, celebrations...
00:30:57 That's how I met my wife.
00:30:59 That story again... We didn't meet
00:31:02 Come on, didn't we meet
00:31:04 We met at your aunt's.
00:31:05 Okay, but where did love start?
00:31:07 What love?
00:31:08 Besides, why do you
00:31:12 Do you really care if they'll
00:31:14 It doesn't matter.
00:31:16 I don't care what they think.
00:31:20 I used to play there with a band.
00:31:25 Beatles, Rolling Stones, Klezmers,
00:31:30 Then one day I was playing
00:31:35 And I looked...
00:31:37 and maybe for three or four minutes
00:31:53 I was like a stone.
00:31:56 And of course I was dressed
00:32:01 so she was in love.
00:32:06 You know that?
00:33:38 Good evening.
00:33:39 Egyptian Embassy?
00:33:43 This is Kamal Abdel Azim of
00:33:47 We're in trouble.
00:33:50 Kamal Abdel Azim of the
00:33:56 We're in trouble.
00:33:59 The Alexandria Police Orchestra!
00:34:03 Yes, please.
00:34:05 08-6583000.
00:34:10 Yes, please.
00:34:13 Good bye, sir.
00:34:30 Arab salad,
00:34:33 tahini sauce,
00:34:35 fries, lots.
00:34:39 Put some more.
00:34:48 You sure you don't want something?
00:34:51 Coffee, maybe?
00:34:53 Yes, maybe coffee. Thank you.
00:34:57 Coffee. Get us a coffee.
00:35:07 Tewfiq, tell me something
00:35:11 What?
00:35:12 Something. I don't know,
00:35:26 What does it mean?
00:35:28 In wintertime, take an umbrella,
00:35:30 in summertime, put a hat
00:35:34 in autumn time stay at home.
00:35:50 Everything is okay?
00:35:52 Yes, it's just...
00:35:55 Leave it. People here
00:36:14 So what do you play
00:36:17 You play like army music?
00:36:26 We are a traditional orchestra.
00:36:31 What, like Um Kulthoum? Farid?
00:36:34 Yes.
00:36:37 Why police needs to play
00:36:42 This is like asking
00:36:55 I'm sorry. I didn't mean that...
00:37:03 It's okay. You're not the only one
00:37:06 Music today is not
00:37:10 What do you mean?
00:37:12 Well, people today care about
00:37:15 Money, efficiency, worth.
00:37:19 People are stupid, aren't they?
00:37:24 Yes, they are, sometimes.
00:37:59 Papi...
00:38:01 Oh no, not him...
00:38:03 Going out? Good time?
00:38:07 Don't know.
00:38:08 Just going...
00:38:10 out.
00:38:13 I don't lock. You can go in.
00:38:16 I can go too, you know.
00:38:20 I don't sleep, so maybe
00:38:25 Have a look on the city.
00:38:26 No...
00:38:29 No, see...
00:38:33 One girl. Okay?
00:38:37 One girl?
00:38:38 Yes. One girl.
00:38:41 Okay. I just look on the city.
00:38:46 You and the girl do what you want.
00:38:50 Khaled.
00:38:52 Papi.
00:38:57 Well, this raises questions.
00:39:00 They're all like that.
00:39:04 Very questionable.
00:39:09 I like clothes. Clothes nice.
00:39:12 Yes.
00:39:14 Like Michael Jackson.
00:39:34 This is the cousin?
00:39:37 Well?
00:39:38 No way,
00:39:41 You fixed me up
00:39:44 Is she gloomy?
00:39:45 Of course she's gloomy.
00:39:46 She's not gloomy.
00:39:47 She is!
00:39:49 Come on, you're exaggerating.
00:39:52 Hi.
00:39:54 Papi, meet my cousin, Julia.
00:39:58 Hi.
00:40:01 Make some room.
00:40:10 I just look on the city.
00:40:31 Tewfiq, you see this guy?
00:40:42 He's someone that...
00:40:45 I mean, me and him,
00:40:53 I see.
00:41:06 Hi, Sammy.
00:41:09 Meet Tewfiq, a good friend
00:41:14 Please meet.
00:41:28 Tewfiq is a conductor.
00:41:32 How do you do?
00:41:40 How are you doing?
00:41:46 Son of a bitch.
00:41:48 A real son of a bitch!
00:41:55 One minute.
00:42:26 This is for you.
00:45:46 Come, Papi.
00:45:49 No...
00:45:51 This ain't for me.
00:45:53 Come on, don't be scared.
00:45:56 I'll show you.
00:46:00 No, please...
00:46:01 Don't be scared.
00:46:02 Stop it, get off my back!
00:46:20 You don't go with girls a lot, eh?
00:46:23 No.
00:46:28 I hear the sea in my ears.
00:46:30 Sea? In your ears?
00:46:33 Yes.
00:46:34 I don't know what to say,
00:46:38 I want to talk, but I hear
00:46:44 Like that...
00:46:55 So you and girls, you never...
00:47:00 You never?
00:47:05 You?
00:47:06 Yes.
00:47:10 What's it like?
00:47:14 I can tell you, but...
00:47:18 only in Arabic.
00:48:04 This is the park.
00:48:08 It doesn't look like a park,
00:48:12 You have to imagine.
00:48:15 You see?
00:48:17 This is the grass.
00:48:20 And there is where
00:48:26 And this...
00:48:29 This is the sea.
00:48:36 Tell me, how does it feel?
00:48:40 I mean to do music, to have
00:48:47 Well...
00:48:50 To have all the people waiting
00:48:54 You know...
00:48:57 It's...
00:49:00 It's...
00:49:02 Yes...
00:49:05 What?
00:49:31 It looks like the most important
00:49:34 No, the most important thing
00:49:37 What? Fishing?
00:49:40 It's so boring!
00:49:42 No, it's not boring.
00:49:43 To sit whole days like that,
00:49:46 until you catch something?
00:49:48 It's not boring at all.
00:49:50 It's the sound of water,
00:49:55 and distant children playing
00:49:59 the sound of the bait falling
00:50:02 In early hours at sea you can hear
00:50:06 Like a symphony.
00:50:12 And the fish, you cook it?
00:50:15 Well, usually I don't catch.
00:50:19 But sometimes I just put them back
00:50:22 Really?
00:50:25 Before, when my wife was alive
00:50:27 and she used to cook...
00:50:32 but now I just put them back.
00:50:38 Your wife is dead?
00:50:40 Yes.
00:50:44 Was it a long time ago?
00:50:48 Almost 3 years ago.
00:50:50 In September, the 21 st.
00:50:56 I'm sorry if I'm asking something
00:51:00 No, it's okay. They say it's good
00:51:11 She was pretty?
00:51:13 Yes.
00:51:16 Did she like fishing?
00:51:21 How did you meet?
00:51:24 In the academy, at a friend's house.
00:51:29 You know, we talked,
00:51:33 I thought she didn't like me,
00:51:36 after a few days she came
00:51:45 Did you have children?
00:51:49 We had one child.
00:51:51 One?!
00:51:53 One son?
00:51:56 What, you, a big man like you,
00:52:01 and only one son?
00:52:12 I'm joking.
00:52:21 Can we please go now?
00:52:25 Okay.
00:53:02 What?
00:53:03 The cousin is crying.
00:53:06 Why is she crying?
00:53:07 How would I know.
00:53:10 Just sort something out.
00:54:30 You need a drink.
00:55:28 You drink also.
00:55:47 Now what?
00:57:06 We are going to sleep now.
00:57:10 I am sorry if we caused trouble.
00:57:14 No, no. It's not you.
00:57:17 All the time it's like this now.
00:57:37 Stupid, isn't it?
00:58:33 You know...
00:58:37 maybe this is how your
00:58:40 I mean... not a big end
00:58:43 with trumpets and violins,
00:58:48 maybe this is the finish.
00:58:51 Just like that, suddenly.
00:58:53 Not sad, not happy.
00:58:57 Just...
00:59:02 a small room,
00:59:05 a lamp,
00:59:08 a bed,
00:59:11 child sleeps,
00:59:14 and...
00:59:24 tons of loneliness.
01:01:07 Yes?
01:01:09 This is me, Kamal.
01:01:11 Are you sending a car?
01:01:13 Very good.
01:01:15 I am at the phone.
01:01:17 Very good.
01:01:19 Waiting for instructions.
01:01:22 Goodbye, sir. Goodbye.
01:01:48 Do you like Arab movies, Tewfiq?
01:01:51 Omar Sharif, Faten Hamama...
01:01:54 When I was young we used
01:01:57 Arab movies, Egyptian movies.
01:01:59 Every Friday at noon,
01:02:01 all the streets in Israel were empty
01:02:05 and me, my mother, my sister,
01:02:08 and we cry our eyes out.
01:02:14 We were all in love with
01:02:17 We were all in love with love.
01:02:22 And I think that now, this night,
01:02:25 we could live this again,
01:02:28 big love in big Arabic words...
01:02:41 But I fuck it all up
01:02:46 My life is an Arab movie.
01:02:59 My wife you have
01:03:02 she died because of me.
01:03:04 We had a son,
01:03:06 a bright and beautiful son,
01:03:09 he made some mistakes.
01:03:12 I was hard with him,
01:03:15 I didn't understand.
01:03:19 He was gentle, fragile, like her.
01:03:25 I didn't understand him.
01:03:29 He took his life.
01:03:34 It broke her heart.
01:03:49 Do you have children?
01:03:52 No.
01:03:56 When I could have, I was too
01:03:59 When I wanted, I couldn't.
01:04:03 Too bad. You are a good woman.
01:04:10 You think so?
01:04:14 I'm sure.
01:05:07 Dina,
01:05:10 do you like Chet Baker?
01:05:13 Who?
01:05:14 Chet Baker.
01:05:32 No. I don't know.
01:05:41 I like Chet Baker.
01:05:49 I have all his recordings.
01:05:52 From the beginning, with the
01:05:55 To the last concert in '88.
01:07:26 A bit weak on the lower key,
01:07:29 but not too bad.
01:07:35 I know.
01:07:37 Wine?
01:07:53 I got some left in the fridge.
01:07:56 Thank you.
01:07:57 But I shall go to sleep now.
01:08:02 You're sure? You don't want some?
01:08:05 Not tonight... Not for me.
01:08:09 We have a long day tomorrow.
01:08:14 Okay.
01:08:24 You too, don't stay up too late.
01:08:27 We shouldn't impose anymore.
01:08:32 Go on, son.
01:08:34 We have a long day tomorrow.
01:09:39 Hello?
01:09:40 Hi, Amalia.
01:09:41 How are you, sweetie?
01:09:45 I'm fine, how are you?
01:09:47 Is your mother better?
01:09:50 I miss you!
01:09:52 No, I put on a sweatshirt.
01:09:57 It keeps me warm.
01:09:58 Love you...
01:12:47 Did you have a quiet night?
01:12:50 I guess. Sort of...
01:13:22 I would like to thank you
01:13:25 We shall be ever grateful
01:13:29 My pleasure.
01:14:01 This is the place: Petah Tikva.
01:14:17 Goodbye.
01:14:19 Goodbye, Madame.
01:18:03 Sasson Gabai
01:18:12 Ronit Elkabetz
01:18:22 Saleh Bakri
01:18:30 Khalifa Natour
01:18:44 To my Grandmother, Shoshana,
01:18:50 Written and directed by
01:20:02 English: Tal Haran
01:20:06 Subtitles: Cinematyp Studios Ltd.