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Five broken lives, one brutal city — Tel Aviv chews you up and never apologizes.
TMDB
67
IMDb
70
Rotten Tomatoes
89
Audience Score
89

Year Zero (2004)

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Overview

Drama

Through a mosaic of stories intertwined and created a current picture of the sad social and economic situation in Israel. Mother forced into prostitution to support her son; Blind man must survive after losing his dog; Son is looking for his rocker father's; Apartment owner complicates his life while entering the underworld...

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Content warning
single motherblind mantel aviv, israelinterlinked stories

Standout Aspects

Acting

Sasson Gabai's blind man will wreck you without seeing.

Direction

Pitchhadze weaves misery like a telenovela from hell.

Writing

Stories collide with cruel precision — no happy accidents.

Best for:Solo: Late night when you're ready to feel something uncomfortable.·Streaming: Pause often — you'll need breaths between the punches.
Heads up:Sexual Content: Mother's prostitution scenes are explicit, transactional, devastating.·Emotional: Animal loss and parental failure hit hard repeatedly.
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Director

Joseph Pitchhadze

ReleasedJun 6, 2004
Runtime2h 11m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacesteady
Intensityhigh
Tonedark
Feelheavy

Top Cast

Sasson Gabai

Sasson Gabai

Guide-Dogs Trainer

Vladimir Friedman

Vladimir Friedman

Placement Office Clerk

Uri Klauzner

Uri Klauzner

Shem-Tov

Keren Mor

Keren Mor

Michal

Moni Moshonov

Moni Moshonov

Eddie

Menashe Noy

Menashe Noy

Reuven

Yussuf Abu-Warda

Yussuf Abu-Warda

Jack Adalist

Jack Adalist

Sarah Adler

Sarah Adler

Danny Geva

Danny Geva

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Cultural

Shot during the Second Intifada's economic fallout — the desperation is documentary-real.

Trivia

Keren Mor, playing the prostitute mother, was a beloved comedy star — casting was deliberately jarring.

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