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Shoshana

Shoshana

  • Status: Released
  • 25-01-2024
  • Runtime: 121 min
  • Score: 6.6
  • Vote count: 44

In this edge-of-your-seat thriller inspired by real events, a British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love amidst the political turmoil of 1930s Tel Aviv. With British control over Palestine precarious and conflict inevitable, everyone is forced to choose a side.

Douglas Booth

Thomas Wilkin

Harry Melling

Geoffrey Morton

Irina Starshenbaum

Shoshana Borochov

Gina Bramhill

Alice Morton

Aury Alby

Avraham Stern

Liudmyla Vasylieva

Luba Borochov

Ian Hart

Robert Chambers

Oliver Chris

Ralph Cairns

Gal Mizrav

Shlomo Ben Yosef

Tim Wallers

Harold Macmichael

Aliosha Massine

Efrain Ilin

Samuel Kay

David Shomron

Doron Kochavi

Benjamin Zeroni

Yotam Ishay

Arieh Yitzhaki

Avi Golomb

Yuri Eisner

Irene Paloma Jona

Roni Stern

Gianmarco Vettori

Zelik Zak

Daniel Donskoy

David Raziel

Camilla Calderoni

Tova Zvorai

Rony Herman

Schiff

Aaron Vodovoz

Leonid

Ariel Nil Levy

Lubinsky

Tim Daish

Vicar

Lee Comley

Police Interrogator 1

Matthew Thomas-Robinson

Police Interrogator 2

Matthew T. Reynolds

DCI Roberts

Ofer Seker

Ezra

Yarden Lavi

Aharon Heichman

Stephen O'Leary

Boyle

Shiri Binder

Ruth

Yaniv Yafe

Moshe Zvorai

Idan Yechieli

Yaakov Levstein

Glib Sukhanov

David Borochov

Edward Karow Wilson

Sergeant Stamp

Alec Nicholls

Explosives Expert

Davide Fiano

Nissim Reuven

Elico Levi

Jewish Policeman

Yoav Bavly

Eli

Seif Nabul

Jacob Banay

Raymond Jacky Shama

Joshua Groner

Alla Krasovitzkaya

Mrs Levstein

Lee Comley

Police Interrogator #1

Tim Daish

Anglican Vicar

Alexander Fahey

Policeman

Otto Hills-Fletcher

Army Sergeant

Josh Hyams

Policeman

Sofia Maggi

Natalya (Leonid's Daughter)

Aleksander Mincer

Neighbour Informant

Elena Mushkaeva

Tatyana

Alex Norton

Tennant (CID)

Ben Pearce

Policeman (CID)

Marc Richardson

Policeman (CID)

Matthew Thomas-Robinson

Interrogator

Eleanor Grace

Woman (uncredited)

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This is a curiously undercooked iteration of a story that well exemplifies that expression about one man's terrorist being another's freedom fighter. It's the underwhelming Douglas Booth who is Wilkin, a police detective based in British-administered Palestine and a man who has a semblance of decency to him. His boss "Chambers" (Ian Hart) is a bit more of a player, though - and he drafts in the much more "hands-on" Morton (the unremarkable Harry Melling) to get results more quickly - not least the apprehension of Stern (Aury Alby) who is determined to establish a Jewish homeland and doesn't much care which tactics he uses to accomplish that. The personal story is largely historical fact, so there's no real jeopardy here, but it's an interesting postulation on just how the British tried to administer a region and a population that had no interest in being administered, and that was being logistically manipulated with the shortest of term vision for anyone's future. Palestinian and Jew could agree on just one thing - get the UK out, but thereafter there was little consensus as the bombs and the bullets continued to fly. To be honest, I found the contribution of the eponymous woman (Irina Starshenbaum) to be almost incidental to what is essentially a rather dryly brutal story of a territory that always has been and will be fought over. It looks fine, but somehow it's all just a little too bitty - episodic, even, and it needed a bigger hitter to deliver the narrative more engagingly and convincingly. Pity.