Sweets

Overview

Salah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab sector in Israel by opening a new chain of candy stores. 'The Firm', an Israeli corporation headed by Klausner , that controls Israeli candy market, resent Salah on his former business move - taking control over the Israeli market of Turkish coffee. Klausner sees the new business initiative of Salah as a real threat, not only a business one but also a cultural and a political one, even a real challenge against Zionism itself. In a disguise of a Business struggle the story reveals moral dilemmas and a cultural struggle: the Arab businessman trying to integrate in Modern Israel against the dominant Zionist culture.

Cast

Moni Moshonov

Menashe Noy

Makram J. Khoury

N/A

Oz Kemishka

Saleh as a Child

N/A

Rula Khoury

Saleh's mother

Michael Sarne

The German

Jameel Khoury

Sweets Smuggler

Shmuel Vilozni

Klausner

Ezra Kafri

August

Sarah Adler

Klaudia

N/A

Lillian Ruth-Chilovsky

Natasha

Svetlana Norbayeva

Natasha's Mother