I recently watched "The Other Son" ("Le Fils de l'Autre" in French.) It is a French movie based in Israel. It revolves around two families: one Israeli Jews and the other Israeli Arabs and how the two are forced to deal with each other when a secret is made known. In 1991, when Saddam's Iraq was firing Scud missiles at Israel two woman were given birth at the same hospital and in the wake of the air raids their babies were switched. It took 18 years for the families to learn the truth (due only because of the routine medical tests that every conscript in the Israeli military had to take.) The Israeli Jewish family had raised the Israeli Arab boy (not knowing the truth) while the Israeli Arab family had raised the Israeli Jewish boy (again not knowing the truth.) Pascal Elbe plays the Jewish father, Emmanuelle Devos the Jewish mother, Jules Sitruk plays their "son. Khalifa Natour plays the Arab father, Areen Omari the Arab mother, Medhdi Denbi their "son" and Mahmud Shalaby the older brother. Each did a good job portraying their respected role. The movie shows the good and bad of both sides (rather than favoring one over the other) and how they fit in the current Israel-West Bank relationship.
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