Beitar Provence

2002
1h 25m

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The story of a little town, Givat Zurim, and its lowest-ranked soccer team. The lot for the quarterfinal of the national championship set Beitar Givat Zurim to host no less than Maccabi Tel ... Read allThe story of a little town, Givat Zurim, and its lowest-ranked soccer team. The lot for the quarterfinal of the national championship set Beitar Givat Zurim to host no less than Maccabi Tel Aviv, one of the best teams around. Those ten days until the game, and the historical arri... Read allThe story of a little town, Givat Zurim, and its lowest-ranked soccer team. The lot for the quarterfinal of the national championship set Beitar Givat Zurim to host no less than Maccabi Tel Aviv, one of the best teams around. Those ten days until the game, and the historical arrival of Maccabi's players, will not be easily forgotten.

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6.7/10

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Awards
- 2 wins & 9 nominations total

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benk2008

A Young Boy Who Wants To Play Soccer

I liked this movie. It's the story of a young boy who plays for a small youth team in Southern Israel and his dream is to play for one of Israel's best soccer teams and his favorite team: Maccabi Tel Aviv. Soccer is Israel's favorite sport and Maccabi Tel Aviv's star Tal Banin makes an appearance in this movie.

5Nozz

A variation on the underdog-sports-team motif

Advertised in terms of the "Can our scrappy little underfunded team beat the smug big-leaguers?" motif, this movie also includes a love triangle and an assortment of characters who might have been better served by a TV series that afforded time for character development. Zeev Revach, starring as the team manager, makes up for the sketchiness of the script by employing his decades of acting experience and his expressively saggy face. The script gives the younger actors less to work with-- no backgrounds and only the shallowest of motivations. The script does pull a rabbit out of a hat when one of the minor characters comes forward to change the situation. I have to admit that I didn't expect it.