Yellow Asphalt

Yellow Asphalt (2001)

אספלט צהוב

Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. On an almost deserted highway, two Israeli truckers strike a Bedouin lad accidentally. Before they can flee, the boy's people appear and circle the truckers. Retribution? In a tent, elders judge a woman seeking divorce; she wants to leave with her young daughters. They deny the suit. That night she gathers her girls and runs. Her husband pursues her. The Bedouin maid of a married Israeli hot-house farmer is discovered in adultery; with her life in danger, she seeks protection from her lover. He turns her away and involves a Bedouin farmhand in disposing of her. What tribal justice awaits?

Date of release
2001-08-08
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Dan Verete

Casting

Interesting facts

Yellow Asphalt is a 2000 Israeli film depicting Jahalin Bedouins and their way of life, specifically their conflict with Israeli Jews. The film is a pastiche of three short stories depicted sequentially:Black spot – about an Israeli tanker crew which runs over a Bedouin boy Here is not there – about the doomed love of a German woman and her Bedouin husband Red roofs – about a love affair / physical relationship of an Israeli Jewish farmer and his Bedouin maid

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