Things Behind the Sun

Things Behind the Sun

111 mins | Nov. 30, 2006

Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own family: his wife, a long suppressed artist whose life's dream is fulfilled that same week; his twenty-seven-year-old son - a "philosopher" still living at home; and his twenty-five-year-old daughter - a tormented lesbian who has had no contact with her family for a long time. Itzhak doesn't realize, though, that his ten year old daughter, Didush, neglected and almost invisible to her family, is secretly visiting her grandfather whom she has never met previously and sets out to discover the old family secret.

Things Behind the Sun

111 mins | Nov. 30, 2006

Things Behind the Sun
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own family: his wife, a long suppressed artist whose life's dream is fulfilled that same week; his twenty-seven-year-old son - a "philosopher" still living at home; and his twenty-five-year-old daughter - a tormented lesbian who has had no contact with her family for a long time. Itzhak doesn't realize, though, that his ten year old daughter, Didush, neglected and almost invisible to her family, is secretly visiting her grandfather whom she has never met previously and sets out to discover the old family secret.
Producers Israeli Film Fund, Paralight Ltd.
Original title Things Behind the Sun
Directors Yuval Shafferman
Writers Yuval Shafferman

Cast

Assi Dayan

as Itzhak

Sandra Sade

as Smadi

Tess Hashiloni

as Didush

Zohar Shtrauss

as Amit

Tali Sharon

as Namma

Anatol Constantin

as Itzhak's father

Rosina Kambus

as Nurse Dina

Slava Chaplin

as Yard keeper

Hilla Vidor

as Michal