Released
Ajami
August 29 2009 (over 15 years ago)Rating
71
Based on
81 reviews
- Directors: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
- Genres: Crime, Drama
- Runtime: 2 h
- Budget: $1,000,000
- Box office: $1,331,651
- Countries: Germany, Israel
- Companies: Inosan, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, ARTE, ZDF
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.
