Summary
Kidon (Hebrew: כידון) is a 2013 French-Israeli spy action comedy film about the Israeli Mossad's attempts to find out who killed Hamas senior military commander Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in 2010.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] In real life, Kidon is a secretive Mossad special operations killing unit.[13][14]
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| Hebrew | כידון |
| Directed by | Emmanuel Naccache |
| Written by | Emmanuel Naccache |
| Produced by | Manuel Munz, Michael Sharfshtein, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery[1] |
| Starring | Tomer Sisley, Lionel Abelanski, Kev Adams, Hippolyte Girardot, Bar Refaeli, Sasson Gabai |
| Music by | Tom Sharfshtein[1] |
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Running time | 97 minutes[3] |
| Country | France/Israel |
| Languages | Hebrew and French[3] |
Kidon was written and directed by Emmanuel Naccache.[4][1][11][15][16] The hotel scenes were filmed at a hotel in Eilat, Israel, standing in for the Dubai hotel where the actual killing took place.[17]
When the family of Al-Mabhouh learned that in one of the scenes his character drinks alcohol and submits to Israeli "temptress" Bar Refaeli, the family said it would sue to stop the film's distribution arguing that it hurt the Hamas commander's reputation.[18]
Cast edit
- Tomer Sisley as Daniel
- Lionel Abelanski as Eric
- Kev Adams as Facebook
- Hippolyte Girardot as Monsieur Garnier
- Élodie Hesme as Solène
- Bar Refaeli as Einav
- Sasson Gabai as Yair Yitzhaki (as Sasson Gabay)
Accolades edit
Kidon was nominated for the 2013 Ophir Awards of the Israeli Film Academy for Best Actress (Reymonde Amsallem) and Best Sound (Itai Elohev and Gil Toren).[19][20][21] The film was also voted "Best Film Audience Choice Award" at the SERET 2014 film festival.[22]
References edit
- ^ a b c "Kidon". Topia Communications.
- ^ "Premiere performances". The Jerusalem Post - JPost.com. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Kidon". Film Pittsburgh.
- ^ a b "Kidon (2012)". en.unifrance.org.
- ^ "Kidon". marsfilms.com. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
- ^ "Kidon," unifrance.org.
- ^ "Kidon". Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
- ^ "Kidon". UK Jewish Film.
- ^ "Les secrets de tournage du film Kidon". AlloCiné.
- ^ "Kidon de Emmanuel Naccache - (2013) - Comédie". Télérama.
- ^ a b "They'd done it; The audience wins in this spy vs. spy caper in which Bar Rafaeli plays the role of a young student called Einav". The Jerusalem Post. November 7, 2013.
- ^ Sal Emergui (October 31, 2013). "'Kidon' sorprende... incluso al Mosad". El Mundo.
- ^ Aaron Howard (June 12, 2014). "'Kidon' to open summer Israeli film series". Jewish Herald-Voice.
- ^ Meier, Cameron (November 12, 2014). "Movies for the mensches: Enzian's Jewish Film Festival". Orlando Weekly.
- ^ Steinberg, Jessica (November 16, 2013). "The man who turned a maybe-Mossad hit into a sabra caper; Emmanuel Naccache talks about the making of 'Kidon,' a new comic thriller featuring model Bar Refaeli". The Times of Israel.
- ^ Robert Sender (May 18, 2014). "Emmanuel Naccache: " Ma version fantasmée de l'assassinat de Dubaï "". Actualités Juives.
- ^ "Mossad agent Bar Refaeli seduces Hamas man in cinematic depiction of Dubai operation". Haaretz. May 7, 2012.
- ^ Anderman, Nirit (October 24, 2013). "Now You See Her: Bar Refaeli Poses as a Spy in Much-anticipated Israeli Film". Haaretz.
- ^ "Kidon at Chicago International Film Festival", Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest, July 26, 2016.
- ^ "Kidon כידון", Israeli Film Festival.
- ^ Hannah Brown (August 14, 2013). "2013 Ophir nominations announced - snubs and all". The Jerusalem Post.
- ^ "Emmanuel Naccache's film 'Kidon' voted 'Best Film' at the SERET 2014 festival". Adot News. July 10, 2014.
External links edit
- Kidon at IMDb
