Matana MiShamayim

A Gift from Above (Hebrew: מתנה משמיים‎, romanized: Matana MiShamayim, lit. a gift from the sky) is a 2003 Israeli drama film, directed by Dover Kosashvili.[1] The dialogue on this film is partly in the Judaeo-Georgian language and partly in Hebrew. And since the Judaeo-Georgian language is a dialect, spoken by a small community,[2] most of the cast had to learn it for this production.

A Gift from Above
Directed byDover Kosashvili
Produced byMarek Rozenbaum
Written byDover Kosashvili
(Dubi Rubinstein)
StarringYuval Segal
Rami Heuberger
Moni Moshonov
Lior Ashkenazi
Ronit Yudkevitz
Dover Kosashvili
Menashe Noy
Ania Bukstein
Music byIoseb Bardanashvili
CinematographyLaurent Dailland
Edited byYael Perlov
Distributed byIsrael Film Fund
Transfax
Keshet Broadcasting
Release date
  • December 2003 (2003-12)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguageHebrew
Judaeo-Georgian
Budget12.7 M NIS
A part of the cast on the set

The movie was a nominee to the Ophir Award in 11 categories.[3]

Plot

The characters on this movie live like a closed tribe. Most of them live on the same block.[4] Among themselves they speak a rare language. They put a lot of pressure on each other to get married only within their community. They are not much concerned about obeying the country's laws. And many of them work in the same place, Ben Gurion Airport luggage department,[5] or help their community members, who do work there, to steal passengers' suitcases.

The community does not have a lot of money, but its folklore is rich and its life is full of parties, sex, violence and excitement.[6] The most exciting happening there is the operation they're plotting, step by step, for stealing cargoes of diamonds from the airplanes. The plotting includes putting all the blame on two volunteers from within the community itself.

References
  1. imdb
  2. Ethnologue
  3. המועמדים לפרסי האקדמיה לקולנוע, גואל פינטו, הארץ, 2003
  4. "חתונה מאוחרת" בלבוש מלא בוטלה הקרנת "חתונה מאוחרת" בבית-שמש. בעירייה: "חברי הוועדה לא ראו את הסרט" מרב יודילוביץ', 2002, ידיעות אחרונות
  5. האוסקר הישראלי 2003, האוזן השלישית
  6. גלובס, 23/12/2009, מין סרט שכזה "מתנה משמיים", ד' 22:25, "יס סטארס ישראלי", ניר קיפניס
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