Ultimatum
Synopsis
December 31, 1990. The ultimatum issued by the UNO to Irak expires in fifteen days: if Saddam Hussein doesn't withdraw from Koweit, the Allies have a mandate to use force. In the editorial rooms of the West, World War Three is discussed. In Jerusalem, anxiety is running high: Saddam Hussein threatens to use Scud missiles armed with chemical and bacteriological warheads against Israel.
23-year-old Luisa, a French-Italian woman, is studying ancient history at Jerusalem university. Nathanael, a young French painter, makes ends meet by working as a security guard in East-Jerusalem. Their relationship, which is violent and complex, is of the "neither with you, nor without you" mode.
Like them, their friends, neighbors, and acquaintances tensely wait for the end of the ultimatum, their anxiety increasing. How do you live when life is hanging by a thread? What do you do with your days, your nights when apocalypse is hovering?
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (7)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Storia Television
- Co-productions : France 3 Cinéma, STUDIOCANAL
- Foreign production companies : Lama Films, Film Kairos
- Film exports/foreign sales : Kinology
- French distribution : Mars Films
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producers : Thomas Anargyros, Édouard De Vésinne
- Screenwriter : Valérie Zenatti
- Director of Photography : Dominique Bouilleret
- Music Composer : Cyril Morin
- Editor : Marie-Sophie Dubus
- Sound recordists : Laurent Lafran, Ludovic Maucuit, Thomas Lefèvre
- Author of original work : Valérie Zenatti
- Associate producer : Alexia De Beauvoir
- Line Producer : Frédéric Bruneel
- Co-producers : Amir Harel, Francesco Pamphili
- Production Manager : Eitan Mansuri
- Press Attachés (film) : Laurence Granec, Karine Ménard
- Production Designer : Miguel Markin
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French, Hebrew, Italian, English
- Coproducer countries : France, Israel, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
