The film "Lebanon" tells a real story. On June 1982, (the first day of the Lebanese war), four young Israeli soldiers, operating a single tank, are assigned to accompany a small group of ground soldiers. The force's first mission is to enter a civilian Lebanese village and 'clear' it from any possibly remaining PLO terrorists. A mission that should be: "fast and simple", as Jamille, the force's commander describes it… But as the soldiers enter the village, the mission gets complicated, eventually becoming a nightmare of random and futile killing of soldiers, terrorists and local civilians. At the mission's peek moment the four soldiers will be led, into a death-trap, while loosing connection to the other Israeli forces . "Lebanon" deals with the complex chaos within a war and reveals a terrible military omission conducted by the Israeli Defense Force. Only by way of nature, the film will also bring forth different political issues. But most of all "Lebanon" wishes to portray four twenty year old 'kids' who, all of a sudden, find themselves immersed in a reality in which killing people becomes their necessity. None of them are heros, nor wishe to become one. The painful struggle between their survival instinct and their humanistic values will create a chilling human drama.
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