Victory

Victory (2024)

המנצחים

When life becomes a musical, not everyone can keep up with the beat.

In the height of Israel's post-"Six-Day War" euphoria, an up-and-coming actress is torn between her new glistening career and her husband's post-trauma.

Date of release
2024-02-08
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 54m
Genres
Drama, Romance, History, Music
Director
Eliran Peled

Casting

Interesting facts

Victory is a 2023 Israeli musical film directed by Eliran Peled. The film stars Daniel Litman, Yael Sztulman, Amit Farkash and Yadin Gellman as two couples amid the euphoria of Israel's victory over Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War. The film is based on real events and real characters.

Production

Peled, co-writer and director, had worked on developing the film for seven years. He also researched and watched existing musical film projects: "We [Peled and co-writer Yonatan Blumenfeld] understood early in the writing process that if you want to make a musical, you need to respect the templates of the genre and understand the archetypes of the story you're telling."

A total of 14 songs original songs written for the film were used and sung by the actors and a choir. The soundtrack was recorded with an orchestra in Vienna and with many musicians in Israel.

The film was shot in Israel and abroad, between June 2021 and December of the same year. The film received financial support from the Rabinowitz Foundation for the Arts, the Kader Foundation, Channel 13, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and private investors.

Parts of the film were re-edited in the wake of the 7 October attacks on Israel. Yadin Gellman, one of the film's leads was also the first Israeli celebrity casualty of the war, sustaining serious injuries amid the Be'eri massacre.

Lior Waitzman, one of the film's sound designers, was killed during the Battle of Sderot on October 7th.

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