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LEBANON
 | QFT
Wednesday 21 April 7pm
£6.50/£6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Samuel Maoz / Germany,Israel,France, Lebanon / 2009 / 94 mins / Cert:15 / Print source: Metrodome Group | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | It’s June, 1982 - The First Lebanonese War; a lone tank is sent into help out a group of paratroopers and enters a hostile and unforgiving landscape - a simple mission on paper turns into a nightmare.
It’s an intense adventure using the same subject matter as Waltz With Bashir - this time we’re put into a tank with four Israeli soldiers, the claustrophobic situation of the men situated within a tank is reminiscent of the U-boat crews in Das Boot. There’s Assi the commander, Shmulik the gunner, Yigal the driver and Hertzel the loquacious loader. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war.
'Aiming to do what Das Boot did in capturing the confines of a submarine,
Samuel Maoz’s debut feature film recently captured the Golden Lion at Venice.' TWITCH
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