The Film Source Collection
Israel / 1980 / 94 minutes
Starring:
GILA ALMAGOR
ALEX PELEG
and LIAT PANSKI
Written
and Directed by
MICHAL BAT-ADAM
Synopsis: The struggle against human depression - the family and public reaction towards the depressed individual - is the subject of Michal Bat-Adam's motion picture.
Pola, the mother who suffers from mental illness, her husband Nadav, a professional photographer who fails to comprehend the nature of his wife's condition, and their clever ten-year-old daughter Nilli, who understands, are the family who live on The Thin Line.
The film is a family drama which also deals
with the unfathomable and often irrational
problems of mental distress which can enter into
the everyday lives of the modem family...
Awards for Best Film,
Best
Director and Best Actress
by
The Israeli Institute of Cinema