Yossi & Jagger

"Two soldiers and a love that lasts forever..."

2002 1h 5m HE

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6.7

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87%

FRESH

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METACRITIC

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7.1

IMDB

★6.7TMDB · 103🍅87%Rotten Tomatoes●70Metacritic★7.1IMDB · 7,636

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Synopsis

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A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolate outpost is guarded from attack.

“Two soldiers and a love that lasts forever...”

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Cast

Ohad Knoller
Yossi
Yehuda Levi
Lior Amichai 'Jagger'
Assi Cohen
Ophir
Aya Steinovitz
Yaeli
Sharon Raginiano
The Colonel
Hani Furstenberg
Goldie
Yuval Semo
Psycho
Hanan Savyon
Adams

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Eytan Fox
Writers: Avner Bernheimer
Languages: Hebrew
Countries: Israel

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RUNTIME

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Tight 65-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.3M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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Released 24 years ago.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Yossi Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

WORLD

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Eytan Fox, shot by Yaron Scharf. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Ohad Knoller and Yehuda Levi and Assi Cohen carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

ERA

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Marketing tagline: "Two soldiers and a love that lasts forever...".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Eytan Fox directs. Yaron Scharf behind the camera. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Israel. Dialogue in Hebrew.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 65-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Shot for just $0.3M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Released 24 years ago.
4Part of the "Yossi Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
6Directed by Eytan Fox, shot by Yaron Scharf. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Ohad Knoller and Yehuda Levi and Assi Cohen carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Two soldiers and a love that lasts forever...".
9IMDB entry: tt0334754 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Yaron Scharf
Runtime: 65 min · 1h 5m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $267,005
Original language: HE
IMDB: Yossi & Jagger (2002)
Rotten Tomatoes: 87% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 70/100
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 7,636 votes
MPAA: R
US box office: $267,005

Awards

9 wins & 1 nomination

Part of

Yossi Collection

Yossi is a pair of films directed by Eytan Fox about soldiers at the Israel – Lebanon border who try to find some peace and solace from the daily routine of war, with the follow up film picking up the events 10 years later. The film has a sequel entitled Yossi (Hebrew: הסיפור של יוסי‎‎ Yossi's Story) released in 2012 that picks up the story a number of years after the events in the first film.