Yana's Friends
- November 4, 1999 (1999-11-04) (Israel)
Russian
Yana's Friends (Hebrew: החברים של יאנה, romanized: HaHaverim shel Yana) is a 1999 Israeli film directed by Arik Kaplun. script editor: Savi Gabizon. Critically acclaimed, it won 10 Israeli Academy Awards including the Ophir Award for Best Picture. It also won the Crystal Globe at the 34th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1999. The film has a very rare 100% rating on the film website Rotten Tomatoes based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 7.16/10. The site's consensus reads: "A heartwarming movie that handles some weighty subjects with humor".[1]
Plot
The plot follows after two families of Russian Olim Chadashim which live in the same building that a student, Eli (Nir Levy), lives in. Eli is studying cinema and he plans to leave Israel in order to further his film studies in New York. The first family was a couple consisting of Yana (Evelyn Kaplon) and Fima (Israel Demidov), who are Eli's roommates. At the beginning of the plot, Fima runs away to Russia and leaves Yana while she is pregnant with Fima's child and holding Fima's debts. As the movie progresses, a romance develops between Yana and Eli during the background of the First Gulf War. The second family consist of Elik and Mila (Vladimir Fridman and Lena Sakhnova), their baby son and Mila's paralyzed grandfather Yitzhak. Elik and Mila send Yitzhak, with his wartime medals to beg for money next to a musician named Yuri (Shamil Ben Ari). Elik insists that Yitzchak collect alms specifically near musicians because there he earns better, because he is seen as one of them and receives their money as well. A love story from the past unfolds anew between Yitzhak and landlord Rosa (Dahlia Friedland). The stories of the characters furthest from each other intersect surprisingly.
References
- ^ "Yana's Friends". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
External links
- Yana's Friends at IMDb
- v
- t
- e
- The Last Stage (1948)
- The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)
- The Fall of Berlin (1950)
- Dream of a Cossack (1951)
- The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1952)
- True Friends – Salt of the Earth (1954)
- If All the Guys in the World (1956)
- Jagte Raho (1957)
- Stepbrothers – And Quiet Flows the Don (1958)
- Splendid Days (1960)
- Nine Days in One Year (1962)
- Accused (1964)
- No award (1966)
- Capricious Summer (1968)
- Kes (1970)
- Taming of the Fire (1972)
- A Lover's Romance (1974)
- Cantata de Chile (1976)
- White Bim Black Ear – Shadows of a Hot Summer (1978)
- The Fiancee (1980)
- Red Bells (1982)
- Leo Tolstoy (1984)
- A Street to Die (1986)
- Hibiscus Town (1988)
- No award (1990)
- Krapatchouk (1992)
- My Soul Brother (1994)
- The Ride (1995)
- Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
- Ma vie en rose (1997)
- Streetheart (1998)
- Yana's Friends (1999)
- Me You Them (2000)
- Amélie (2001)
- Year of the Devil (2002)
- Facing Windows (2003)
- A Children's Story (2004)
- My Nikifor (2005)
- Sherrybaby (2006)
- Jar City (2007)
- Terribly Happy (2008)
- Angel at Sea (2009)
- The Mosquito Net (2010)
- Restoration (2011)
- The Almost Man (2012)
- The Notebook (2013)
- Corn Island (2014)
- Bob and the Trees (2015)
- It's Not the Time of My Life (2016)
- Little Crusader (2017)
- I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018)
- The Father (2019)
- As Far as I Can Walk (2021)
- Summer with Hope (2022)
- Blaga's Lessons (2023)
- A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (2024)
This Tel Aviv-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
This article related to an Israeli film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
This 1990s drama film–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e