Ajami
MovieTitle | עג'מי |
User score | 7.1 |
Release date | Aug 29, 2009 |
Genre | Crime, Drama |
Director | Yaron Shani , Scandar Copti |
Production country | Germany, Israel |
Production companies | Inosan, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, ARTE, ZDF |
Budget | $1,000,000 |
Revenue | $1,331,651 |
Run time | 120 min. |
Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians.