Won Silver Berlin Bear Best Director: Joseph Cedar
Nominated Golden Berlin Bear: Joseph Cedar
Academy Awards, USA:
Nominated Oscar Best Foreign Language Film of the Year.
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.
As LIRAZ lays the explosives which would destroy that very same structure that his friends had died defending, he witnesses the collapse of all he's been taught as an officer, and his soldier's mental and physical disintegration.
Director: Joseph Cedar
Writers: Joseph Cedar, Ron Leshem (novel)
Cast:
Alon Abutbul ... Kimchy
Eli Altonio ... Oshry
Daniel Brook ... Pavel
Oshri Cohen ... Liraz
Gal Friedman ... Balis
Nevo Kimchi ... Avishai
Ohad Knoller ... Ziv
Arthur Perzev ... Shpitzer
Ygal Resnik ... Rubi
Itay Schor ... Emilio
Itay Tiran ... Koris
Itay Turgeman ... Zitlawy
Ami Weinberg ... Amox Faran
Hanan Yishai ... Nadav
Danny Zahavi ... Meir