The First Lebanon War &ndash\; June\, 1982. A lone tank is d ispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the I sraeli Air Force. What seems to be a simple mission gradually spins out of control.
\nShmuel the gunner\, Assi the commander\, Herzl the loader and Yigal the driver are the tank&rsquo\;s crew\, four 20-something boys w ho have never fought in a war and are now operating a killing machine. Thou gh trying to remain brave\, the boys are pushed to their mental limits as t hey struggle to survive in a situation they cannot contain\, and try not to lose their humanity in the chaos of war.
\nWriter-director Samuel M aoz&rsquo\;s raw and visceral film is based on his own experiences as a twe nty year old novice soldier serving in the Israeli army during the 1982 Leb anon war. Using his own vivid recollections to bring us inside an Israeli t ank during the first 24 hours of the invasion\, Maoz restricts the film&rsq uo\;s action entirely to the tank&rsquo\;s interior and shows us the outsid e world only&mdash\;as the four young soldiers themselves see it&mdash\;thr ough the lens of a periscopic gun sight. The cathartic process of writing a nd directing "\;Lebanon"\; allowed Maoz to finally free himself of the events that he had experienced twenty-five years earlier.
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