Kosashvilli’s Infiltration in Theatres

Infiltration, Dover Kosashvilli’s latest film, is currently showing in theatres throughout Israel. The film was screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2010 and its producers Marek Rozenbaum, Itai Tamir, Michael Rozenbaum, Sophie Dulac, and Michel Zana received the JCC US Marketing and Distribution Award for Israeli Feature Films. The film’s cinematographer, Amnon Salomon won the 2010 Ophir Award for Best Cinematography.

Midnight East’s Shlomo Porath says:
Dover Kosashvilli’s ‘Infiltration’, based on the novel by Yehoshua Kenaz and set in the early 1950′s, is about a platoon of newly recruited young soldiers going through basic training. They are all designated for non-combat assignment, due to physical disability or mental incompatibility. Ashkenazi and Sephardic, crass and urbane, religious and secular, urban and rural, scarred refugees and confident Sabras, with at least a half-dozen different mother-tongues: they are the quintessential melting pot that this country was at its founding, and which still survives in the IDF to this day. But as the title suggests this is not a utopia held together through brotherly love. Read more…