Zaytoun

2013

Zaytoun

Critics Consensus

It has a lot on its mind, including a timely storyline with real-world significance; unfortunately, Zaytoun's reach exceeds its grasp, partly due to the presence of a miscast Stephen Dorff.

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In 1982, amid the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) is shot down over Beirut and is taken prisoner by inhabitants of a Palestinian refugee camp. Among the captors is ten-year-old Fahed, whose father obsessively tends to his prized, but sickly olive tree, refusing to replant it until they return to their ancestral land. Despite his deep-rooted hatred for Yoni, Fahed realizes he can use him to get past the border and into "Palestine" to plant his father's olive tree. The two embark on a harrowing and dangerous journey - one that tests the very boundaries of humanity. ZAYTOUN is a story of survival, reconciliation and friendship. (c) Strand Releasing

Cast

Stephen Dorff
as Yoni
Abdallah El Akal
as Fahed
Ali Suliman
as Syrian Officer
Alice Taglioni
as Leclair
Loai Noufi
as Aboudi
Tarik Kopti
as Seedo
Tarak Kopty
as Seedo
Ashraf Barhom
as PLO Fighter
Mira Awad
as Im Ahmed
Joni Arbid
as Abu Fahed
Jony Arbid
as Abu Fahed
Ashraf Farah
as Khaled
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