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Omar

Adam Bakri and Leem Lubany
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Overview

A Palestinian baker becomes an informant for the Israeli military, jeopardizing his relationships with his two oldest friends, and his romance with the woman he plans to marry in this topical thriller from director Hany Abu-Assad (PARADISE NOW). Omar is no stranger to the dangers that go with living in the Occupied Territories; he regularly scales the dividing wall to visit his girlfriend Nadja, and each day he dreams of striking back at his Israeli oppressors alongside his oldest friends Tarek and Amjad. But when an Israeli soldier is killed, Omar is taken into custody and forced to work for the very people he despises most. In the midst of this intense crisis of conscience, Omar finds his true loyalties put to the ultimate test.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Hany Abu-Assad - Director
Waleed F. Zuaiter
Adam Bakri
Leem Lubany
Samer Bisharat
Pauline Bahoth
Waleed Zuaiter
Eyad Hourani
Doraid Liddawi

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Run Time: 96
  • UPC: 748252161024
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: NR
  • Release Date: June 2014

Movie Reviews

Reviews:
"One of Abu-Assad's great strengths as both writer and director is the way in which he uses the most fundamental human exchanges to build complex situations and to set up major turning points." - 02/20/2014 Los Angeles Times


"A cast of mostly first-time actors shade the film with a touching realism. Bakri offers a masterful performance..." - 02/27/2014 Chicago Sun-Times


"[A} harrowing, humane Arabic-language import about life under occupation that's part Romeo-and-Juliet love story and part twisty chess-pawn thriller." -- Grade: A- - 03/03/2014 Entertainment Weekly


3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Helped along by an amazing cast of mostly first-time actors, OMAR feels very fresh due to its attitude, approach, and the fact that it offers no solutions." - 02/21/2014 RogerEbert.com


"OMAR pivots on Bakri’s performance. The actor conveys a palpable sense of anxiety as his character navigates a course that affords him few real options..." - 02/20/2014 A.V. Club


"OMAR, tightly plotted and cleanly shot, has the speed and suspense of a crime thriller." - 02/20/2014 New York Times


3 stars out of 5 -- "Hard-hitting moments abound..." - 05/23/2014 Empire


4 stars out of 5 -- "The same story could have been set in any period, but set in an urgent contemporary world this is alive to the major moral conundrums contained in the everyday." - 05/26/2014 Total Film

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