Cup Final
NR, 110 min.
Directed by Erian Riklis, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Moshe Ivgi, Muhamad Bakri.

Not reviewed at press time. Set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Lebanese War of 1982 and the World Soccer Cup games in Spain,Cup Final (1991) shows how enemies in war can be comrades on the playing field. Israeli, Druse, Arab Muslim, and Christian soldiers all unite in their support for the Italian team, causing the lines between prisoners and captors to blur.

This article appears in June 7 • 1996 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.