In a departure from his earlier films concerned with contemporary sexual turmoil--BAR 51 (1986) and DRIFTING (1984)--Israeli director Amos Gutman has based his latest work on a best-selling Israeli novel set during that country's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk's
Himmo, King of
Jerusalem. In 1948, Jerusalem is under siege, and a temporary military hospital has been set up at the St. Heironymus Monastery to help cope with the increasing numbers of wounded. Kimchi, whose lover has been killed in the war, comes to St. Heironymus as a volunteer nurse and is assigned to work
in a ward established in the belfry. Injured patients roam about the monastery, des...
Released:
1988
Rated:
NR
Length:
84 mins