THE EXCHANGE
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SYNOPSIS
A man comes home at a time of day he’s never been there before. A time when the light hits it differently, when the humming of the fridge is the only audible sound. A man comes home at a time he’s never come home before and for a moment it seems to him like he has walked into the house of a stranger, empty and silent at a desolate mid-day hour. A man comes home and all of a sudden can see fabulous and forgotten things. Dust particles swirling around in a white ray of light. An old price tag glued to the underside of the table. A man comes home like a tourist and observes anew those things that make up his life. The parking lot, the stairs, the full mailboxes. A man comes home and walks into his life at a time he’s never been inside it, observing it with the eyes of the child he once was. And, once again, it is filled with mystery and magical hideouts. The corridors, the passageways, the boiler rooms. A man stands by and observes his own life from the outside. But is this life still truly his own?

DIRECTOREran Kolirin
YEAR2011
STATUScompleted
FESTIVALS AWARDSVenice Competition 2011

 
CASTRotem Keinam (Oded)
Sharon Tal (Tami)
Dov Navon (Yoav)
Shirili Deshe (Yael)
Zvika Fishzon
Michael Kfir
Arie Mark

 
CO PRODUCTION WITHAn Israeli-German coproduction by July August Productions
Pandora Filmproduktion in cooperation with ZDF/arte
SUPPORTED BYIsraeli Film Fund
YES
Hessen Invest Film
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
DFFF-Deutscher Filmförderfonds
WORLD SALESThe Match Factory
GERMAN DISTRIBUTORPandora Film Verleih

 
LENGTH94 min.
FORMAT35mm
24fps
1:1.85
colour
Dolby SRD
SHOOTING LOCATIONTel Aviv - Israel
Hanau - Germany (Studio)
ORIGINAL LANGUAGEHebrew

 
PRODUCERSEilon Ratzkovsky
Yossi Uzrad
Guy Jacoel (producers)
Karl Baumgartner
Raimond Goebel (co-producer)
Michael Weber
Meinolf Zurhorst (associate producers)
WRITERSEran Kolirin
CASTINGOrit Azoulay
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHYShai Goldman
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENTEitan Mansuri
Fred Steinbach
EDITINGArik Lahav-Leibovitz
MUSIC
SOUNDMichael Busch (original sound)
Gil Toren
Matthias Schwab (sound designers)
ART DIRECTIONYesim Zolan
Miguel Merkin
COSTUMESDoron Ashkenazi
Hila Bargiel
MAKE UP HAIRMaya Grestel

 
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