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Summary
A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.
Good for
- Date night
- Friends night
- Teens
Skip it if
- You want fast pacing
- You want dark or edgy material
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+10)
Critics 89Audiences 79GoodWatch 83
Tomatometer98%
Metascore80
Audience score86%
User score7.7
IMDb7.5
Running time
1 h 23 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 comedies, −17 min on the typical 100
typical 10083Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 13 countries, rent or buy in 21 more
+3Released
2007
September 13, 2007
19 years ago
Genres
ComedyDramaLanguage
Hebrew
Original language
Also spoken
EnglishArabicMade in
France- Israel
United States
20 of 20
Sasson GabaiTewfiq Zakaria
Ronit ElkabetzDina
Saleh BakriKhaled
Khalifa NatourSimon
Shlomi AvrahamPapi- RMRubi MoskovitzItzik
- JCJabarin CamalImad
Uri GavrielAvrum- IJImad JabarinMajor-general Camal Abdel Azim
Hila Sorjon-FisherIris
Tarik KoptyIman- RMRinat MatatovYula
- TYTomer YosefArs
- NANadav AsulinSami
- AKAhuva KerenLea
- FKFrançois KhellMakram
- HKHisham KhouryFauzi
Shlomi KoriatMan with yellow ball
Hila SaadaSvetlana- ESEyad SheetySaleh
Directing · 5
- Eran Kolirin Director, Screenplay
- Yochanan Kredo First Assistant Director
- Ya'ara Lipkin Second Assistant Director
- Lihi Levin Third Assistant Director
- Michal Koren Third Assistant Director
Production · 7
- Sophie Dulac Producer
- Ehud Bleiberg Producer
- Michel Zana Producer
- Eylon Ratzkovsky Producer
- Yossi Uzrad Producer
- Koby Gal-Raday Producer
Camera · 3
- Shai Goldman Director of Photography
- David Rudoy Second Assistant Camera
- Idan Or Assistant Camera
Editing · 1
- Arik Lahav-Leibovich Editor
Sound · 5
- Habib Shadah Music
- Itai Elohev Sound Designer
- Gil Toren Sound
- Gilad Leshem Sound Effects Editor
- Israel David Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Art · 2
- Eitan Levi Production Design
- Or Ozrad Set Dresser
Costume & Make-Up · 2
- Doron Ashkenazi Costume Design
- Maya Grastal Makeup Artist
Lighting · 1
- Lior Pery Gaffer
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