Rocking Horse (film)
1978 film by Yaky Yosha
Rocking Horse (in Hebrew: סוסעץ, sus'etz) is director Yaky Yosha's second feature made in 1978. It was the first film to represent Israel in the Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival. It also participated at Locarno, San-Francisco, Chicago and many other international festivals. Rocking Horse received the special judges' award and the best actor award at the Oxford, England, film festival.
Plot
Ami Susetz, an Israeli artist, abandons his wife and daughter in New York, and comes back to his homeland after years of absence.
Susetz wishes to decipher his constant feeling of failure as a human being, as a family man, as an artist. His best friends were killed in the 1973 war, his paintings were burned, not without intent. He has no past and no future.
Back home Susetz reunites with his dying father, with his mother, who unsuccessfully tries to understand her son, and with a childhood friend, Ansberg, now a philosopher/homeless.
Ansberg has adopted unusual methods in order to bring love back to Tel-Aviv and expects "conscientious" Susetz to assist him in that.
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