Snails in the Rain

Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male written love letters, that undermine his sexual identity and interfere on his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.

Cast

Yoav Reuveni

as Boaz

Moran Rosenblatt

as Noa

Yariv Mozer

as Prof. Richlin

Yehuda Nahari

as Nir

Hava Ortman

as Ruth

Eyal Cohen

as The mechanic

Eran Lev

as Army soldier

Lior Soroka

as Student at the library

Eyal Kentov

as Guy at the pool

Adi Douiev

as Michal

Reviews

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"Boaz" (Yoav Reuveni) is the deliciously hunky boyfriend of "Noa" (Moran Rosenblatt) living an apparently happy life together. Not long into this rather pedestrian drama, though, we discover that he has a bit of PTSD from his time doing National Service in his native Israel, and that during that tim...

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