Country: Israel, Latvia
Duration: 80 min
Genre: Documentary
Director: Maria Kravchenko
Screenplay: Herz Frank, Maria Kravchenko
Producers: Guntis Trekteris
Operators: Hertz Frank, Israel Freedman, Alexander Gorev, Sergey Tsirkin
Composer: Carlis Auzans
Editor: Maria Kravchenko
Nomination: Documentary Feature
Age limitations: 12+
At 26 Yigal Amir assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's great hope for peace with Palestine. He was condemned to rot in prison for the rest of his days. Enter Larisa Tremblova, a Russian academic who had settled in Israel with her children and who was moved to pity for the young murderer. This poetic documentary follows the love affair that developed between mother and murderer and which attracted the collective ire of the Israeli people.
