''An Intimate Story'' ( he, סיפור אינטימי) is a 1981

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i drama directed by

Nadav Levitan Nadav Levitan ( he, נדב לויתן; 21 April 1945 – 9 January 2010) was an Israeli film director, screenwriter, writer, and songwriter. He directed nine films between 1981 and 1999. His film ''Stalin's Disciples'' (in Hebrew ''Stalin's ...

. It was based on a short story written by Levitan and filmed in its entirety on

Kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

Einat.Nirit Anderman (January 12, 2010)
"Nadav Levitan, 1945-2010"
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'' (accessed November 10, 2012).

Plot

The film follows a married couple, Leah (

Chava Alberstein Chava Alberstein ( he, חוה אלברשטיין, born 8 December 1946 in Poland) is an Israeli musician, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger. Biography Born Ewa Alberstein in Szczecin, Poland, her name was Hebraized to Chava when she m ...

) and Ya'akov (Alexander Peleg), who live on a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

in the 1970s. Over a period of ten years, all of their attempts to conceive a child have been unsuccessful and their marriage begins to disintegrate as each suffers silently and blames the other. Their difficulties are compounded – and the damaging effects of the lack of privacy in an insular communal environment underscored – when their inability to conceive becomes a matter of public knowledge and

gossip Gossip is idle talk or rumour, especially about the personal or private affairs of others; the act is also known as dishing or tattling. Gossip is a topic of research in evolutionary psychology, which has found gossip to be an important mean ...

among the kibbutz members.

Cast

as Leah Gootman *Alexander Peleg as Ya'akov *Dan Toren *Gilat Ankori *Peter Freistadt *

Shmuel Shilo Shmuel Shilo or Shmulik Shiloh ( he, שמואל שילה; 1 December 1929 – 4 October 2011) was an Israeli actor, director and producer, born in the Second Polish Republic, and best remembered for his role on the Israeli production of Rechov ...

Shmuel Wolf Shmuel Wolf ( he, שמואל וולף; February 12, 1934 – February 23, 2019) was an Israeli actor. Biography Born in Budapest, Wolf's mother died at a young age and his father, who sold sewing machines, later remarried. Wolf and his stepmoth ...

Production

Levitan met his future wife,

, on the set of the film.

References

External links

* 1981 films 1980s Hebrew-language films Films about the kibbutz Films directed by Nadav Levitan 1981 drama films Israeli drama films Films set in the 1970s {{religion-film-stub