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Lebanon

לבנון

2009

During the 1982 Lebanon War, four frightened young Israeli soldiers experience the chaos and terror of combat entirely from inside a single cramped tank, seeing the world only through its gunsight. Samuel Maoz's claustrophobic, harrowing war film.

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A Hebrew-language Israeli war film set almost entirely inside a tank during the 1982 Lebanon War.

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