| | Beaufort DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Foreign Films Movies, Military Videos, Soldiers, Israel, Hebrew | | Starring | Oshri Cohen, Eli Eltonyo, Itay Tiran, Ohad Knoller, Itay Turgeman | | Director | Joseph Cedar | | Composer | Ishai Adar | | Director of Photography | Ofer Inov | | Producer | David Mandil, David Silber | | Screenwriter | Joseph Cedar, Ron Leshem |
After 18 years dug into a heavily fortified mountain deep in occupied Lebanon, the last Israeli soldiers enduring constant bombardment at the site of the ancient crusader stronghold called Beaufort receive orders to abandon their posts, detonate the warren of bunkers in which they've tenuously clung to life and victory, and come home. Amid redoubled shelling from Hezbollah, the fort's brash, impossibly young commander Liraz (Oshri Cohen) struggles to keep himself and his men safe from a faceless enemy that would turn withdrawal into massacre, and transform a just cause into a lost cause. Joseph Cedar directs. Lebanon War veteran Joseph Cedar (CAMPFIRE) directs a harrowing, often haunting account of Israel's 2000 withdrawal from Lebanon and the Beaufort ("Good Fort") mountain fortress. Built by Crusaders in the 12th century, the fort was captured by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in 1982 at the start of the Lebanon War. Eighteen years later, increasing criticism at home and abroad has led to Israel's decision to withdraw completely from Lebanon. Charged with managing the fort's defense and its evacuation is 22-year-old commander Liraz Liberti (Oshri Cohen). Eager to lead but emotionally untested, Liraz must maintain his bare-bones troop's discipline between bouts of claustrophobic tedium and increasing harassment by Hezbollah mortar attacks. That tenuous balance threatens to unravel with the arrival of bomb-disposal specialist Ziv (Ohad Knoller), as well as an unexpectedly sophisticated Hezbollah strike that reveals the limits of Liraz's abilities. Director Cedar and co-screenwriter Ron Leshem (on whose novel the film is based) eschew political statements and side-taking to instead examine the complexities of individuals bound by duty to a seemingly lost cause. Affectingly acted and directed, BEAUFORT--winner of the Silver Bear at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival--acknowledges the futility of war without ever surrendering its humanity or sense of hope. The film also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Beaufort Reviews: "[A] movie of tremendous power -- nerve-racking, astute, and neutral enough to apply to all soldiers, in all wars, everywhere." -- Grade: A-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly "Powerfully directed by Joseph Cedar, this is a war movie about a retreat, not a victory, a film so realistic, so intense, it verges on the surreal."-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Cedar successfully conveys the boredom, fear and claustrophobia experienced by his conscript characters."-- Tom Dawson, Total Film "The first section of the film is the most striking and unusual....[With] an eerie claustrophobia more reminiscent of sci-fi than a war film..."-- Sight and Sound Critic, Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "Considering, with equal pathos, the same concepts of duty and humanity as Letters From Iwo Jima, the picture makes excellent use of its location..."-- David Parkinson, Empire "BEAUFORT has an earnest, sober intelligence that makes it hard to shake."-- A. O. Scott, New York Times
This is the only Itay Tiran video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Itay Turgeman. Beaufort | List Price | $29.95 (You save $8.46) | | Studio | Kino on Video | | Orig Year | 2008 | | All Time Sales Rank |  55900  | | CD Universe Part number | 7694670 | | Catalog number | 5742 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 30, 2008 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 126 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround Sound; Widescreen |
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Beaufort DVD After 18 years dug into a heavily fortified mountain deep in occupied Lebanon, the last Israeli soldiers enduring constant bombardment at the site of the ancient crusader stronghold called Beaufort receive orders to abandon their posts, detonate the warren of bunkers in which they've tenuously clung to life and victory, and come home. Amid redoubled shelling from Hezbollah, the fort's brash, impossibly young commander Liraz (Oshri Cohen) struggles to keep himself and his men safe from a faceless enemy that would turn withdrawal into massacre, and transform a just cause into a lost cause. An unusually dexterous ensemble cast and director Joseph Cedar's (Time of Favor) visionary combination of gritty objectivity, lucid sudden violence, and keen sensitivity to the tangle of terror, duty, and sacrifice common to soldiers of any era, results in "a film so realistic, so intense, it verges on the surreal." (LA Times). Suspenseful, poetic, and heartbreakingly transcendent, the Oscar ® nominated Beaufort is "a movie of tremendous power" (Entertainment Weekly) and "one of those once-in-a-decade war pictures that reminds us what's worthwhile about putting the ritualized barbarism of combat onscreen in the first place." (New York Sun)
Source - Kino on Video
Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Surround- Hebrew
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Behind the Scenes: BEAUFORT
Deleted Scenes (9)
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