Out of the Blue is a comedy about abortive loves and about a friendship which survives them. Shabtai, a junk peddler and Herzel, his aide, drive through the streets of Tel Aviv buying and selling used-up furniture and trash. Now and again Shabtai takes a nap and in his dreams a seductive and passionate red-haired woman makes love to him. One day Shabtai discovers her photograph in a face-cream advertisement and realizes that the woman of his dreams exists in reality. He sets out to find her. But it is Herzel who first wins her attention and then her heart. Herzel, however, loves Batya…
Out of the Blue is an urban fairytale, an inverted Cinderella story. Instead of a poor, kind hearted young girl – two elderly machos on a decrepit motorcycle; instead of a prince - a princess; instead of a shoe found at midnight - a shabby ping-pong table abandoned in a parking lot.
Script & Directing: Igal Bursztyn
Producer: Shuki Friedman
With: Alon Aboutboul, Moshe Ivgy, Dorit Bar–Or, Zehavit Passi, Liat Goren, Nir ( Niro ) Levi
Director of Photography: Valentin Belonogov
Editing: Era Lapid
Art Director: Yoram Shayer
Music: Israel Bright
July 2008, 35 mm, color
