A journey through taverns into the world of live music Once upon a time, members of a certain group "Turkiz" - young guys and girls - gathered in a cave and wrote a lyrical song. Written in order to perform it on one single occasion - when one of them feels the breath of death, the remaining in the ranks must perform this song, so that the dying can enjoy the enchanting sounds of music for the last time. This should be done in the same cave where the song was written.
Since then, a lot of water has flowed, the group has long since broken up, and Amram - the son of one of the members of the group, Abraham Mufradi, must fulfill the last will of his dying father - to make him hear the song he wrote before he dies. But how do you do that? There are no others, and those are farther away: Amram found the only remaining "on the go" member of the group, Yosef Tavila, long ago "hung the instrument on the wall." However, after seeing Amram’s score and finding out whose son he is, Yosef agrees. But where do you get the musicians? As a true representative of the younger generation (and also, by the way, a musician), Amram believes that everything can be played on one synthesizer. However, Yosef objects, because only live string music touches the strings of the soul. And then Yosef and Amram go on a trip to clubs and taverns in search of the best musicians who deserve to play the song. During this journey, the characters meet old and new friends, fight villains (albeit not very dangerous, but very pathetic), and Yosef finds his daughter and restores relations with her. In the finale, this song sounds – “The Ballad of Weeping Spring”: Amram and Yosef managed just in time.
In general, this story could well happen somewhere in medieval Europe: most of the film is occupied by quite medieval interiors of taverns, burning fires and free musicians. Almost free - for most of them, as is typical of all geniuses, are mired in everyday problems and debts, have become dependent on enterprising businessmen who are used to making money on them and from whom they have to be bought, beaten, won in bets and so on. And against the background of all this - beautiful Eastern and Sephardic music!
The movie, of course, is for an amateur. But it’s still beautiful.
10 out of 10