An adventure comedy for the whole family. For the sake of species preservation, a rare vulture egg must be brought from the Safari in Ramat Gan, Israel, to the Gamla Nature Preserve in the Golan Heights.
Operation Egg
A Film by: Alon Gur Arye
(Israel, 2017, 94 min, Hebrew, English subtitles, Cast: Haim Osadon, Shlomi Koriat
Yaron Berlad, Danna Semo, Yehoram Gaon).
An adventure comedy for the whole family. For the sake of species preservation, a rare vulture egg must be brought from the Safari in Ramat Gan, Israel, to the Gamla Nature Preserve in the Golan Heights.
Haim, a dreamer who has never been outside the zoo, is put in charge of this mission. Everything goes wrong when two scoundrels decide to steal the egg and add it to the dish they're making for a reality cooking show. Thus begins the wild chase all around Israel to return the egg and the fledgling inside it to the distant north.
An adventure comedy suitable for the entire family with unique footage of animals
and landscape: it focuses on important values such as honesty, helping those in
need, friendship and protecting the environment.
FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS
• Brooklyn Israeli FF 2019
• Boston Israeli FF 2019
• Israeli-American Council (IAC) 2021