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Restoration

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Original title

Boker Tov Adon Fidelman (Restoration)

Year

2011

Running time

105 min.

Country

Israel

Director

Yossi Madmoni

Screenwriter

Erez Kav-El

Cast

Music

Avi Belleli

Cinematography

Boaz Yehonatan Yacov

Producer

Chayim Sharir

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

After his longtime business partner dies, Yakov Fidelman discovers that his antique furniture-restoration shop is in grave financial difficulty. He’s forced to deal with his estranged son, Noah, a lawyer, who, seeing no hope for the failing store, proposes building apartments above it. One day Fidelman’s new apprentice, Anton, finds a neglected piano in the workshop: an 1882 Steinway that, given a new baseboard, would be worth enough to save the store.
The elegant story lines of Yossi Madmony’s first feature yield a complex set of frayed character relations for which restoration proves an apt metaphor. Refinishing the piano’s exterior would be worthless without replacing the cracked cast-iron board holding the string tension. Marked by restrained writing, which leaves significant details open to interpretation, Restoration depicts the rich texture of modern Israeli society. Anchored by Sasson Gabay’s mesmerizing performance, Fidelman is a stoic man who uses his shop to shut out the world, clinging to the illusion that he can maintain a vanishing way of life. (From Sundance.org)

Awards: 2011: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Best Film

2011: Seminci: Official Selection

2011: Sundance Film Festival: World Cinema Screenwriting Award. 2 nominations

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Restoration

2011

Yossi Madmoni

5.9

(46)