Dear Mr. Waldman
2006 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 90 VOTES · DIR. Hanan Peled
Overview
Set in early-1960s Tel Aviv, this coming-of-age story centers on 10-year-old Hilik and his struggle to help heal the emotional wounds of his father, who hasn't recovered from losing his elder son at Auschwitz. Still in denial, Moishe believes his son escaped and is now President Kennedy's aide. To help his father move on and gain the father-son relationship he sorely needs, Hilik puts Moishe's love to the test.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,018 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:24 Dear Mr. Waldman
00:06:39 On with it. You're disrupting class.
00:08:59 Another letter? You should publish a correspondence novel.
00:12:09 How about that? Does he look like Jack?
00:15:28 Because she's as barren as the Negev desert, that's why.
00:18:54 I'm told welders and machinists are in great demand these days.
00:22:19 and then he started to float up
00:25:59 "Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people
00:30:49 because of a washing machine, you're kidding yourself.
00:34:53 And my dad, he wrote a letter. And he might be going away.
00:38:38 I want to visit him. I want to tell him I am...
00:42:06 He'll write back for sure. He'll even come here himself. You'll see.
00:44:52 Have you ever kissed?
00:48:35 "I just wanted you to know that I'm alive."
00:52:01 Can't Jack help out?
00:55:03 What's with you?!
00:58:16 that the letter was just a lie?
01:01:13 But, dad, dad's a different story.
01:03:37 You said I should write the letter. Now my dad left us.
01:06:57 Give me that. - No. - Rujka, give me that.
01:10:26 He wrote me right here he was from Radom.
01:13:48 And be a sister and a mother to me...
01:17:26 hocus pocus. - Not all of it.
03:00:00 - How much?!
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,018
Dialogue density11.3 lines / min
First line00:02:24
Final line03:00:00
Production Record
DirectorHanan Peled
LanguageHebrew
IMDb votes90