UCM.ONE has signed the Israeli film “The Vanishing Soldier” by renowned director Dani Rosenberg, which premiered at the 76th Locarno Film Festival 2023 in Switzerland this summer, for the German-speaking countries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The film about Shlomi, an 18-year-old Israeli IDF soldier who irregularly leaves the troops fighting in the Gaza Strip to flee to his girlfriend in Tel Aviv, is the second feature film by Israeli director Dani Rosenberg (born 1979). The film is an impressive, poetic and existential picture of a youth in Israel, a young generation confronted with the permanent state of national defense and war.
UCM.ONE will bring the film to cinemas in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland from fall 2024 with its own German-language dubbed version on the Artkeim² film label.
Synopsis
Shlomi, an 18-year-old soldier, flees the Gaza war zone and makes his way to his girlfriend Shiri in Tel Aviv. When Shlomi learns that the military leadership is convinced that he has been kidnapped in the fog of war, he no longer hides from the soldiers he thought were after him, but from his own identity, which has become a trap. Despite his parents’ pleas to return to his unit before it is too late, Shlomi takes a desperate risk for love – with dramatic consequences. This tragic-comic journey, which takes place over a 24-hour period in the hot and humid streets of Tel Aviv, alternates from horror to hope, from romance to nightmare.
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