אל עצמי (1988)

The film’s protagonist is Zion Cohen (Arik Ohana), a boy who grew up in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Beit She’an and was sent at the age of eight by his grandmother—with the help of a social worker—to a foster family in Haifa in the late 1970s. The foster family is the Sharonis—a well-off family consisting of the mother (Tchia Danon), a psychologist by profession, the father Elimelech (Roberto Pollak), and their young son Nir (Roie Bar-Natan), who do everything in their power to support Zion. The film depicts the various difficulties Zion encounters in his new life as a foster child and his feeling of not belonging; he often tries to return to his childhood neighborhood and his friends, something his grandmother and the social worker try to keep him from doing.

אל עצמי hat eine Laufzeit von 95 Minuten.