Facing the Forest
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Daniel Wachsmann
Gal Zayad
Yisrael Poliakov
Oved Zaituvi
Tamara Dayan
Said Wahib
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Alex Harari, a historian working on his PhD, gets a fire-watching job in a national forest in Israel. At first the lonely lookout seems an ideal place to write and research, until things start to look a little fishy. The business-like chief forester who hires him is not impressed with Alex's PhD thesis. The forester's taciturn son Aaron makes vague references to the previous fire-watchman's hasty departure. It turns out that Aaron is a religious fanatic who haunts the forest on strange errands. Then an attractive forestry secretary shows an unexpected interest in the new look-out guy and snoops into his research findings. There is a tight-lipped Bedouin caretaker who appears to know more than he lets on about the previous watchman. Things really heat up when Alex stumbles upon a valuable coin dating back to Crusader times and a ruin with an enigmatic portrait of a Crusader king. Suddenly, corpses are turning up or disappearing and Alex senses he is in great danger.
Director
Daniel Wachsmann
Cast
Gal Zayad
Yisrael Poliakov
Oved Zaituvi
Tamara Dayan
Said Wahib
Adi Shmueli
Aryeh Buber
Ofer Levy
Crew
Avi Abukasis
Yael Abukasis
Yair Elazar
Shlomo Grunich
Yoram Milo
Gadi Nemet
Yisrael Vagretner
Danny Verta
Daniel Wachsmann
Daniel Wachsmann
Sarah Wachsmann
A B Yehoshua
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 2001
Released in United States February 2001
Shown at Israel Film Festival in New York February 22 - March 8, 2001.
Shown at Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival February 2-11, 2001.
Released in United States 2001
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Israel Film Festival in New York February 22 - March 8, 2001.)
Released in United States February 2001 (Shown at Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival February 2-11, 2001.)
