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The Band's Visit

Once — not long ago — a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this... It wasn't that important.

This highly-decorated movie tells the tale of a small Egyptian Police band, who went to play in a village in Israel. They got lost and ended up in the wrong village in the desert. They next bus out will only arrive tomorrow. With no hotel, a local cafe owner arranges for the eight men to shack up with families in the village. Thus do these enemies, the Egyptians and Israelis, get to know more about each other, up close and personal. In English, Hebrew and Egyptian, with subtitles.

84 minutes, No persons under 13 (Language, Sex)
Comedy, Drama, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour
Director	Eran Kolirin
Screenplay	Eran Kolirin
Music	Habib Shadah
Cinematography	Shai Goldman
Editing	Arik Leibovitch
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Not available
Made in	2007
Produced by	July August Productions, Beliberg Entertainment, Sophie Dulac Productions
SA Distributor	Ster-Kinekor

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama, comedy
Language	Strong, fairly frequent
Nudity	None
Sex	Strongly implied, brief, infrequent sex with suggestive sounds
Violence	None
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Some alcohol and tobacco use, in context
Comments	None
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarDiane de Beer	15
Die BurgerJeanne Calitz	15
The CitizenDavid Jenkin	16
International Media
BBC (UK)Paul Adrendt	10
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	20
eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson	15
ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli	15
Metacritic.com29 critics	16
RottenTomatoes.com107 critics	16
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	20
Internet (IMDB)3012 Netizens	15

Average .. 79%	15

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