Atomic Falafel

Atomic Falafel

Israel, Germany, UK 2015, 93 mins, English, Hebrew, Farsi (sub-titles)
Director Dror Shaul featuring Mali Levi, Michelle Treves, Michelle Treves

With Iran threatening to attain nuclear power, anxious Israeli politicians and top brass gather in an underground bunker to debate a response and whether to consider a preemptive strike. Above ground in a dusty Negev town, a mother-daughter team runs a falafel truck catering to troops patrolling a nearby nuclear reactor. As the widowed mother (Mali Levi) falls for a uranium-allergic German nuclear inspector, her daughter (Michelle Treves) and computer whiz boyfriend (Idan Carmeli) stumble upon secret files that could prevent a nuclear conflagration. As the zany plotlines converge, the Israeli teens and an Iranian youth scramble to thwart war between their countries. “Dror Shaul’s Atomic Falafel is a funny, enjoyable and slightly subversive comedy about the conflict between Israel and a nuclear Iran. It plays like a kind of Israeli Dr. Strangelove meets War Games meets a sketch-comedy television show.” (Hannah Brown, Jerusalem Post)