Israeli director Joseph Cedar's third feature is a potent adaptation of Ron Leshem's bitterly sardonic novel
Im Yesh Gan Eden, published in English as
Beaufort. The title refers to the ironically named, Lebanese mountaintop stronghold Beaufort ("beautiful fort"), a 12th-century Crusader castle that has seen hundreds of years of warfare. From 1982 until 2000, Beaufort served as Israel's northernmost military base in Lebanon -- the perfect setting for an angry parable about the futility and eternal nature of war.
Southern Lebanon, 2000. Eighteen years after the Israeli military drove the PLO out of Beaufort on June 6, 1982 -- the first day of th...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
125 mins