Soda

Soda (2024)

סודה

A beautiful seamstress moves to a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors in 1956. Rumors about her past (as a Capo) shake up the neighborhood, and especially Shalom, the leader and a former brave resistance fighter, who is torn between his passion to the beautiful woman and his commitment to the community to reveal her past.

Date of release
2024-06-05
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama
Director
Erez Tadmor

Casting

Interesting facts

Soda (Hebrew: סודה is a 2024 Israeli drama film directed by Erez Tadmor. The film stars Rotem Sela, Lior Raz and Zohar Strauss. A romance between former partisan fighter Shalom and Ewa becomes tense when Ewa is accused of having been a Kapo at Auschwitz.

Production

As part of their preparation, Tadmor and Sela engaged in extensive research of Kapos, learning how the role was thrust on them and how some were victims of sexual abuse in the camps.

Tadmor has spoken about the film's relationship with present-day Israel: "There are 400 soldiers who were killed in this war; there are people who went through October 7; there are people who survived the massacre at the music festival and have already committed suicide. There are so many kinds of trauma that it will take them a long period of time to heal from them.

“And in a small way, it is reminiscent of what the people returning from the forests and from Auschwitz went through after World War II… All the characters in Soda, they all have their post-trauma, and I feel what happens in the film really reflects what people are going through today. I hope this war ends quickly, and soon we can really say that this war is over.”

It was filmed in Kibbutz HaOn, Kibbutz Givat Brenner, Haifa and Georgia.

The film was first released on 22 March 2024 for Israeli Cinema Day.

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