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Metallic Blues

Directed by: Dan Verete
90 Minutes, 2004, Comedy; Drama

Two Israeli car dealers, Shmuel and Siso, invest five thousand American dollars into a vintage 1985 Lincoln Continental Limousine that they plan to sell in Germany for fifty grand. But when they take it there, they run into problems with the customs police, who are suspicious of Middle Easterners with a huge American gas guzzler. The routine search causes Shmuel to experience a disturbing hallucination about WWII Germany and the Nazis his parents fled from some sixty years earlier. And their adventure in Germany turns into a struggle just to make it out safely, as the echoes of the past catch up with them.

Credits

Director: Dan Verete

Producer: Suzanne Girard

Producer: Klaus Rettig

Producer: Dan Verete

Cast: Moshe Ivgy

Cast: Avi Kushnir

Cast: Tomer Ben David

Cast: Harald Burmeister

Cast: Konstantin Graudus

Cast: Christoph Hagen Dittmann

Written by: Dan Verete

Written by: Thomas Stiller

Distributor: IsraeliFilms

Awards

Israeli Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor

Jerusalem Film Festival: Best Screenplay