Joesph Cedar's film takes place in the cramped and frightening bunkers of a remote Israeli army outpost on the site of a Crusader castle in southern Lebanon in the year 2000, a few months before the Israeli evacuation of southern Lebanon.
According to the Wikipedia article, this 700metre high outpost was used from 1976 by the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation for firing rockets into Israel. Beaufort was captured by the Israeli army in a bloody battle and was held by the Israelis until the Israeli pullout in 2000. During the 1990's the army outpost came under increasing attack by the Hezbollah and the film shows the tension and despair felt by the Israeli soldiers in defending a position in a futile and bloody conflict.
The film is well made, sensitive accurately represents the life style of Israeli soldiers in outposts in hostile territory. It raises many of the dilemmas of war but without taking sides and forcing the viewer to figure it out for him/herself. Disturbing for those of us involved in Israeli existence and the fight for survival, but definitely reccommended.
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