An eighty-year-old man’s body is found with three stab wounds to the chest and a number tattooed along his forearm. Amnon, a police detective and second generation Holocaust survivor, is reluctantly assigned to the case. As the plot weaves between the past and present, their stories unfold.
Firebirds
A Film by: Amir I. Wolf
(Israel, 2015, 105 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English subtitles, Cast: Oded Teomi
Gila Almagor, Devora Keidar, Miriam Zohar, Amnon Wolf, Mali Levi Gershon).
An eighty-year-old man's body is found with three stab wounds to the chest and a number tattooed along his forearm. Amnon, a police detective and second generation Holocaust survivor, reluctantly accepts the case and struggles to bring it to a quick close.
In the weeks leading up to his death Amikam, the victim, sought a ‘membership card’ to the most horrible club in the world: the club of Holocaust survivors. Despite his age he was still attractive and his charm was evident as he searched the obituaries for widows to beguile.
As the story interweaves past and present, we witness each man’s struggle to rejoin the society which rejected him.
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
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