--- product_id: 14074030 title: "Broken Wings" price: "€ 18.32" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/14074030-broken-wings store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Broken Wings **Price:** € 18.32 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Broken Wings - **How much does it cost?** € 18.32 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/14074030-broken-wings) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product Description After the death of her husband, an Israeli mother wrestles with her own grief and that of her four children while working two jobs to keep their family together. desertcart.com An uncommonly powerful film, Broken Wings captures a family in mid-disintegration: A midwife at an Israeli hospital struggles to hold her children together in the wake of their father's death. Maya, a gaunt, pale young woman, aspires to win a band contest; Ido, a boy bullied at school, tries to film himself jumping from heights; Yair, a teenage boy, wallows in the meaninglessness of existence as he hands out flyers, dressed in a mouse costume. This may sound tedious or excruciating, but it's given vivid life by an incredible cast and a humor that manages to be absurd and a little sad at the same time. The movie embraces its characters with a profound empathy; it's hard to imagine that anyone could watch Broken Wings and not be deeply moved by the end. Not surprisingly, the movie has won numerous awards at film festivals around the world. --Bret Fetzer Review: An amazing film experience - The trauma that accompanies the sudden loss of a beloved family member is being repeated all over the Middle East today. Behind the headlines are the stories we never read about. One of these is told metaphorically in Nir Bergman's brilliant first effort Broken Wings. It is not an overtly political film, but the implications are clear. Set in the Israeli port city of Haifa, it depicts the effect of the loss of a patriarch on each member of his family, perhaps suggesting the emotional state of Israel since the murder of Yitzhak Rabin. The 83-minute film won accolades at the Berlin International Film Festival and has been a huge critical and commercial success in Israel, winning nine Israeli Academy Awards in 2003. The beautifully expressive Maya Maron, in her first major role, plays an Israeli teenage singer-songwriter (also named Maya) who dreams of becoming a rock star, and wears wings when she sings in her local band. As the film opens, Maya is singing a song she wrote in memory of her father who died suddenly nine months earlier, for reasons not disclosed until the end of the film. Her song is interrupted when her mother Dafna (stage actress Orly Zilberschatz Banai), a nurse, phones and tells her that she has been called to work on the night shift at the local hospital and needs Maya home to take care of her brother Ido and sister Bahr. Maya emphatically refuses, then relents, but the tension between mother and daughter is palpable. The young woman, who was with her father when he died, does not fully grasp the guilt behind her bottled-up rage, and takes out her anger on her mother, who is both sympathetic and irritating as she labors wearily to keep the family from a collision course. We learn that each family member is suffering the father's loss in his or her own way. Dafna stayed in bed for three months, leaving the children to do the parenting, and the results are reflected in their erratic behavior. Six-year old Bahr wets her bed and Ido carries out a strange ritual of filming himself while jumping into an empty pool. The oldest brother Yair (Nitai Gaviratz), also a teenager, has been suspended from school, and hands out leaflets on commuter trains dressed in a mouse costume while expressing a nihilistic philosophy to anyone who will listen. His inability to respond to the words father, fear, and anger during a word association test prompts his school counselor to deny him re-admittance until he receives treatment, but he does not help his cause when he tells the counselor "Your words are meaningless. This conversation does not exist and you don't exist." Yair tells Maya that "things could be worse," and they do get worse before they get better. Broken Wings may sound depressing, but in Bergman's skillful hands, its sadness is balanced with humor and the strength and dignity of its characters. Stylistically, the film doesn't break any new ground, but displays the kind of insight that allows us to learn something new about ourselves. Though rooted in reality, Broken Wings has a heart that leaps and a soul that soars, and it's a film that I truly loved. Review: A pretty good foreign film - The only problem I had with the film is while what the characters are goig through is intensely trmatic, I didn't feel connnected to the characters. Things happen and it is very sad, but ultimately a good ending. For me, I really wanted to see a Jewish movie, and this seemed like a good choice. Happy that I bought it for sure, but not the best movie out there. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B000255L98 | | Actors | Maya Maron, Nitai Gaviratz, Orly Silbersatz Banai | | Aspect Ratio | 1.78:1 | | Best Sellers Rank | #85,064 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #780 in Foreign Films (Movies & TV) #13,271 in Drama DVDs | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (44) | | Director | Nir Bergman | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No | | MPAA rating | R (Restricted) | | Media Format | Subtitled | | Number of discs | 1 | | Package Dimensions | 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.88 ounces | | Producers | Assaf Amir | | Release date | July 20, 2004 | | Run time | 1 hour and 24 minutes | | Studio | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | | Subtitles: | English | ## Product Details - **Contributor:** Assaf Amir, Maya Maron, Nir Bergman, Nitai Gaviratz, Norma Productions Ltd., Orly Silbersatz Banai - **Format:** Subtitled - **Genre:** Foreign - **Language:** Hebrew - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 24 minutes ## Images ![Broken Wings - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51B0K1W6YHL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An amazing film experience *by H***N on July 22, 2004* The trauma that accompanies the sudden loss of a beloved family member is being repeated all over the Middle East today. Behind the headlines are the stories we never read about. One of these is told metaphorically in Nir Bergman's brilliant first effort Broken Wings. It is not an overtly political film, but the implications are clear. Set in the Israeli port city of Haifa, it depicts the effect of the loss of a patriarch on each member of his family, perhaps suggesting the emotional state of Israel since the murder of Yitzhak Rabin. The 83-minute film won accolades at the Berlin International Film Festival and has been a huge critical and commercial success in Israel, winning nine Israeli Academy Awards in 2003. The beautifully expressive Maya Maron, in her first major role, plays an Israeli teenage singer-songwriter (also named Maya) who dreams of becoming a rock star, and wears wings when she sings in her local band. As the film opens, Maya is singing a song she wrote in memory of her father who died suddenly nine months earlier, for reasons not disclosed until the end of the film. Her song is interrupted when her mother Dafna (stage actress Orly Zilberschatz Banai), a nurse, phones and tells her that she has been called to work on the night shift at the local hospital and needs Maya home to take care of her brother Ido and sister Bahr. Maya emphatically refuses, then relents, but the tension between mother and daughter is palpable. The young woman, who was with her father when he died, does not fully grasp the guilt behind her bottled-up rage, and takes out her anger on her mother, who is both sympathetic and irritating as she labors wearily to keep the family from a collision course. We learn that each family member is suffering the father's loss in his or her own way. Dafna stayed in bed for three months, leaving the children to do the parenting, and the results are reflected in their erratic behavior. Six-year old Bahr wets her bed and Ido carries out a strange ritual of filming himself while jumping into an empty pool. The oldest brother Yair (Nitai Gaviratz), also a teenager, has been suspended from school, and hands out leaflets on commuter trains dressed in a mouse costume while expressing a nihilistic philosophy to anyone who will listen. His inability to respond to the words father, fear, and anger during a word association test prompts his school counselor to deny him re-admittance until he receives treatment, but he does not help his cause when he tells the counselor "Your words are meaningless. This conversation does not exist and you don't exist." Yair tells Maya that "things could be worse," and they do get worse before they get better. Broken Wings may sound depressing, but in Bergman's skillful hands, its sadness is balanced with humor and the strength and dignity of its characters. Stylistically, the film doesn't break any new ground, but displays the kind of insight that allows us to learn something new about ourselves. Though rooted in reality, Broken Wings has a heart that leaps and a soul that soars, and it's a film that I truly loved. ### ⭐⭐⭐ A pretty good foreign film *by A***S on May 11, 2010* The only problem I had with the film is while what the characters are goig through is intensely trmatic, I didn't feel connnected to the characters. Things happen and it is very sad, but ultimately a good ending. For me, I really wanted to see a Jewish movie, and this seemed like a good choice. Happy that I bought it for sure, but not the best movie out there. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wanted to see this movie for over 10 years *by N***R on July 18, 2020* WOW. This is movie is many things - a family drama, a story of teenagers' coming of age, a single mother's struggle mixed with some middle age crisis and loneliness, all wrapped into one with great mastery and subtlety. It is a tearjerker that doesn't try to be one. In fairness, you'll laugh some, too. It doesn't try too hard to be anything - it is just good, just right, well-balanced, well-told uplifting drama with a few laughs and cries mixed in. If your soul needs a bit of "caffeine" to re-awaken, then run, don't walk to watch this. P.S. I really don't get how all the great reviews add up to 3 stars? 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