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Yellow Asphalt

Play trailer Poster for Yellow Asphalt 2002,  1h 27m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Three encounters between modern-day Israelis and the Bedouin people who are their colleagues, lovers and employees: A young Bedouin boy on a donkey is killed while crossing a highway; a German woman married to a Bedouin man and the mother of his children, decides she can no longer live according to tribal customs; the affair between an Israeli farmer and his family's Bedouin maid becomes apparent to the Bedouin young man also in his employ. These stories pit cultures against one another.

Critics Reviews

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Loren King Boston Globe Jul 3, 2002
3.5/4
Powerful, lingering. Go to Full Review
Megan Turner New York Post Mar 13, 2002
2.5/4
The passions aroused by the discord between old and new cultures are set against the strange, stark beauty of the Mideast desert, so lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air. Go to Full Review
A.O. Scott New York Times Mar 13, 2002
3.5/5
The inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power, as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews May 10, 2005
B
A sobering, impartial look at the human condition. Go to Full Review
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Dec 10, 2002
3/5
a budget affair that exposes the generally sad existence of the Bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives. Go to Full Review
Maria Garcia Film Journal International Mar 26, 2002
Brilliantly written and well-acted, Yellow Asphalt is an uncompromising film. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Dan Verete

Director

Sami Samir

Actor

Tatjana Blacher

Actor

Motti Katz

Actor

Abed Zuabi

Actor

Hagit Keler

Actor

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Yellow Asphalt

Motti Katz as Shmuel and Raida Adon as Suhilla. Sami Samir as Abed. Tatjana Blacher as Tamam Um Razala and Abed Zuabi as Sliman. Bedouin Boy. Raida Adon as Suhilla. Tatjana Blacher as Tamam Um Razala. View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis Three encounters between modern-day Israelis and the Bedouin people who are their colleagues, lovers and employees: A young Bedouin boy on a donkey is killed while crossing a highway; a German woman married to a Bedouin man and the mother of his children, decides she can no longer live according to tribal customs; the affair between an Israeli farmer and his family's Bedouin maid becomes apparent to the Bedouin young man also in his employ. These stories pit cultures against one another.
Director
Dan Verete
Producer
Dan Verete
Screenwriter
Dan Verete
Distributor
New Yorker Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Hebrew
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 13, 2002, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA)
$11.6K
Runtime
1h 27m
Sound Mix
Mono
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