» Synopsis
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Salah, an Israeli-Arab enterpreneur, strives to bring happiness to the children of the Arab sector in Israel by opening a new chain of sweet stores.
"The Firm", an Israeli corporation headed by Klausner that controls the Israeli sweets market, resents Salah for his former business move - taking control of the Israeli market for Turkish coffee.
Klausner sees Salah's new business initiative as a real threat, not only a business one but also a cultural and political one, even a real challenge to Zionism itself.
Disguised as a business struggle, the story reveals moral dilemmas and a cultural struggle: the Arab businessman trying to integrate in modern Israel against the dominant Zionist culture, while Salah's Russian wife, his French brother-in-law, his German partner and the German partner's French lover illustrate the fact that the struggle does not take place in a vacuum but in a complicated multinational reality.
"Sweets" is a dark satire about greed and violence, unfulfilled desires, lost dreams and the presence of the past, a cinematic parable about a specific but universal conflict.

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» Details
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Dir.: Joseph Pitchhadze
Pro.: Dov Steuer, Joseph Pitchhadze, Ran Fridberg, Perry Kafri, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery
Sc.: Joseph Pitchhadze, Dov Steuer
DP.: Fred Kelemen
Ed.: Dov Steuer
Music: Boris Martzinovsky
Sound Design: Gil Toren, Yossi Appelbaum
Cast: Makram J Khoury, Shmuel Vilozny, Moni Moshonov, Ezra Kafri, Sarah Adler, Menashe Noy, Michael Sarne
Source: Candy the Film Limited Partnership, Tel Aviv
132 min. Hebrew, Arabic, English, Russian, French and German
35mm, colour
Release: February 2014 - Israel
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