Atalia (1984)

7.8/10 90 min Drama

Overview

Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling outcast, she enters into a forbidden affair with her daughter's classmate, Matti, an idealistic 19-year-old rejected by the army.

Cast

Michal Bat-Adam

Atalia

Yossi Pollak

Yftach Katzur

Ruth Geller

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