Synopsis
LEMON TREE meets JOHN LE CARRE in a subtle thriller set in Germany involving Mona, a Lebanese woman (Golshifteh Farahani), and Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent (Neta Riskin) sent to protect their informant while recovering from plastic surgery for her new identity. Mona and Naomi - together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg. A safe house. A shelter.
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Actors (9)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : MACT Productions
- Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Heimatfilm, Riva Filmproduktion, Eran Riklis Productions, United King Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Beta Cinema
- French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Antoine De Clermont-Tonnerre
- Screenwriter : Eran Riklis
- Director of Photography : Sebastian Edschmid
- Music Composer : Yonatan Riklis
- Editor : Richard Marizy
- Sound recordists : Rolf Manzei, Gil Toren, Hervé Buirette
- Costume designers : Frauke Firl, Natan Elkanovich, Rosario Nistico
- Foreign producers : Bettina Brokemper, Michael Eckelt, Eran Riklis, Christian Vennefrohne, Micky Rabinovitz
- Author of original work : Shulamit Hareven
- Line Producers : Sascha Verhey, Christophe Clavert
- Press Attachés (film) : Robert Schlockoff, Jessica Bergstein Collay
- Production Designers : Bertram Strauss, Hefi Bohem, Dori Ben Shoshan
- Casting : Susanne Ritter
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Thriller
- Production language : English, Hebrew, Arabic
- Coproducer countries : Germany (57.85%), France (21.19%), Israel (20.96%)
- Original French-language productions : No
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