The Last Winter (1984 film)

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The Last Winter
Directed byRiki Shelach Nissimoff
Screenplay byJohn Herzfeld
Produced byMota Gorfung
Avi Lerner
Starring Yona Elian
Kathleen Quinlan
Stephen Macht
Zipora Peled
Michael Schneider
Cinematography Amnon Salomon
Edited by Kevin Connor
Music byNachum Heiman
Production
company
Lerko Productions Limited
Distributed by Tri-Star Pictures
Release date
  • June 21, 1984 (1984-06-21)
Running time
89 minutes
CountriesUnited States, Israel
LanguageEnglish
Budget$700,000 [1]

The Last Winter is a 1984 drama film directed by Riki Shelach Nissimoff and produced by Avi Lerner. The film was a joint American-Israeli venture which tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War. A relationship builds between them when each identifies her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.

Notes

  1. ISRAELI FILMMAKERS DISPLAY HOPES AND THEIR BEST MOVIES Carlin, Romano. Philadelphia Inquirer 21 Apr 1983: D.4.


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