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DEAR MR. WALDMAN

Director:

  Hanan Peled
  

Year Released:

  2006

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

4 out of 5

3.5 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Jenya Dodina
  Rami Heuberger
  Evelyn Kaplun
  Roy Mayer
  Ido Port
Movie Haiku:The early ''60s find the Waldman Family in Tel Aviv: both parents Holocaust survivors; both sons Israeli-born. Heuberger’s extraordinary as a loving father haunted by his first family & shamed by a wife who’s determined to just move on. Warm, poignant, surprisingly humorous autobiographical portrait of Israel’s first years of statehood.

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  No

Jewish content?

  Yes

Haiku Posted:

  2007