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Hide and Seek (1980 film)
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'Hide and Seek' (, 'Machboim') is an Israeli drama film, directed by Dan Wolman and released in 1980.[http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/israeli-film-database/films/hide-and-seek "Hide and Seek"]. Israeli Film Center. Billed as the first Israeli film ever to address themes of homosexuality, the film is set in Mandatory Palestine in 1946.Yosefa Loshitzky, 'Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen'. University of Texas Press, 2010. . p. 167.
The film centers on Uri, a young boy who lives with his grandfather as his parents are involved in the resistance movement against the British occupation. He has a warm and friendly relationship with his tutor Balaban, but follows him one day and witnesses him having sex with an Arab man, leading to tragic consequences when he reports Balaban to the Haganah.Amy Kronish and Costel Safirman, 'Israeli Film: A Reference Guide'. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003. , p. 76. The film's cast includes Gila Almagor, Benyamin Armon, Chaim Hadaya, Efrat Lavie, Rahel Shor and Doron Tavory.
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