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A touching love story on the order of Romeo and Juliet
Set in the Israel, Adrian Pasdar plays the lead role very convincingly with Peck very convincing also as the love interest. They were neighbors who grew up together as children. He moved to the US and returned as an adult only to fall in love with his childhood friend (Peck). Of course, it is "doomed" from the start. They are of different religions, at odds with one another, and their parents don't approve and barely does the community. Although the main plot is somewhat predictable as a Romeo-Juliet type love story, the setting of the time, location and politics is not so predictable and makes for an interesting new twist on the genre. The actors are extremely believable throughout and pull you into their story. A wonderful tear jerker love-story for the 1990's. ... Read more

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A glimpse into the birth of modern Israel
I saw this movie by chance just before I traveled to Israel to volunteer on a kibbutz for several months. I found it an informative dramatization of the pioneers of the kibbutzim, the Jews who left Europe and Russia in the early 1900s to build a Zionist home in the British-controlled holy land.
At that time Jewish immigrants were as scattered and as powerless in the land as their Bedouin neighbors. But you can already see the suspicions and rivalry that would build into the Israel/Palestine feud.
The Jews returning to the land dug a nation out of the rock and arid soil, and you can get a sense from this movie how difficult that was, yet what vision and persistence those people had.
The band of settlers in this story meet up with a Sephardic Jew, one whose ancestors had never left the land and who looks as Arabic as the Bedouin. He is religious, the immigrants are secular, not to mention communist. It's amazing how the body politic of Israel has changed from those early days of the returning Diaspora.

Some land can only be bought with blood (PG) Action
1919. At a makeshift camp in the Sinai Desert, a band of young European Jews plant crops in the sweltering heat. Suddenly, bloodcurdling yells and deadly shots ring out. Then out of the barren hills pour hundreds of Bedouin tribesmen, who claim this land for their own. In seconds, the would-be-farmers are locked in hand-to-hand combat, fighting for their lives.

And for a new nation. Amoung the survivors are Anda (Kelly McGillis), a beautiful Viennese doctor, and her lover Marcus (John Shea), a famous violinist. From the day they arrive, their love is tested by the group's idealistic leader, Zev, who forbids couples to live togeather-yet longs for Anda in his heart.

More bloody battles follow and soon the brutal desert starts to take its toll. "Unsettled Land" is a shattering story of young men and women willing to sacrifice everything to defy their own destiny. And change history. ... Read more