Soda

The word "Soda" in Hebrew means "her secret," but it also means soda water. The title here works both ways. The setting is a little Israeli community that is largely supported by a soda bottling plant, back in the early 1950s. The characters are Holocaust survivors, and their leader is the same man who led them in the anti-Nazi resistance, back in Europe. He's an imperfect man, and like many of the others he's by no means left his past behind. We can sympathize with them all. The movie deserves credit for focusing on an almost forgotten time and environment, even though it does contain one obvious blunder. (Telephones were not taken for granted back then, guys!) And I admit that the last minute or so confused me, but throughout the movie the issues raised were significant and the characters embodied them believably.