La voie lactée

Original title: Shvil Hahalav

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1964, a village in Galilee. The Mukhtar collaborates with Israeli military rule. Someone is forging work permits, and the Mukhtar's son and a steady metalsmith, Mahmud, want to marry the sam... Read all1964, a village in Galilee. The Mukhtar collaborates with Israeli military rule. Someone is forging work permits, and the Mukhtar's son and a steady metalsmith, Mahmud, want to marry the same woman. These story lines cross when the village teacher is arrested and jailed for the f... Read all1964, a village in Galilee. The Mukhtar collaborates with Israeli military rule. Someone is forging work permits, and the Mukhtar's son and a steady metalsmith, Mahmud, want to marry the same woman. These story lines cross when the village teacher is arrested and jailed for the forgeries, with the Mukhtar's approval. Mahmoud discovers who the real forger is and goes t... Read all

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7.3/10

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Awards
- 2 wins & 12 nominations total

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Gassan Abbas

Mahmoud Abu Jazi

Teacher
(as Mahmud Abu-Jazi)

Ahmad Abu Sal'oum

Abu Yussef

Yussuf Abu-Warda

Governor

Khaled Awad

Abu Hassan

Mohammad Bakri

Mahmud
(as Mohammed Bakri)

Salim Daw

Muhamed
(as Salim Dau)

Suhel Haddad

Mabruq

Maissa Hamees

Aysha

Mahmud Kadah

Khaled

Makram Khoury

Mukhtar

Mihaela Mitraki

Jamilah

Amal Murkus

Suad

Yussif Nassar

Young mabrook

Lutuf Nouasser

Abu Salih
(as Lotuf Neuser)

Director
- Ali Nassar
Writers
- Ali Nassar
- Ghalib Sha'ath
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8yanivli

every event occur because of the "milky way"

I saw "the milky way" with an inner conflict, but at the end of this film I understand the deepest point of the story: the origins of everything is outside our will. Every event occur because of the "milky way". Even the stronger persons (the Israeli commander or the leader of the village) are taken by the forces of the fate. You can understand the love, justice, and politics only if you understand this principal rule. And because this fatalism - the movie is very sad. All the figures in the film are suffered. It's a mix of love, politic, national, familiar, and individual tragedies. Of course: it's very obvious that the film was made only by Arabs, but the end of the film show that the real problem is the impotent of all to be out of this fate.

9shmulik-cohen

Good Israeli Arab Film.

This was the only film I was glad to see in Chicago at a film club (facet). It is very special because it is made by Israeli Arabs with many Arab Stars. It is on the background of Israel in the 50's, and the Problems of Israeli Arabs.(Which is still relevant). Shvil Hahalav means "Milky Way".