Chronicle of a Disappearance

(1996)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 26 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1996

Runtime: 88 мин

Country: France, Germany

Director: Elia Suleiman

Cast: Elia Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman, Fuad Suleiman, Али Сулиман, Juliet Mazzawi, Fawaz Eilemi, Leonid Alexeenko, Ula Tabari, Taha Mouhamad Ali, Samer Azar

Plot

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.