The Last Winter (1983)
Directed by Riki Shelach Nissimoff / Riki Shelach
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
In this emotional film related to the Yom Kippur War of 1973, an American woman and an Israeli journalist both have husbands who do not return from the fighting, and each woman is convinced that the same prisoner who appears in a film taken in an Egyptian POW camp was her husband. At first the women are antagonistic but as they continue to wait and wait with no word, they begin to empathize with each other's trauma and a deep friendship develops. Whenever the POW in question is released, one of the women may be facing a tragedy spared the other.
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bigamy, enemy, friendship, journalism, MIA (Missing in Action), missing-person, mistaken-identity, POW (Prisoner of War), soldier, war, war-atrocities, widow/widower
