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((Infobox film
| name           = Cup Final (גמר גביע)
| image          = Cup Final (film).jpg
| caption        = 
| director       = [[Eran Riklis]]
| producer       = 
| writer         = [[Eyal Halfon]]
| narrator       = 
| starring       = [[Moshe Ivgy]]<br />[[Mohammed Bakri]]
| music          = 
| cinematography = 
| editing        = 
| distributor    = 
| released       = 20 February 1992 (Germany)<br> 14 May 1993 (UK)
| runtime        = 105 minutes
| country        = Israel
| language       = [[English language|English]]<br>[[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]<br>[[Arabic language|Arabic]]
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'''''Cup Final''''' (((lang-he|גמר גביע)), ((transliteration|he|gmar gavi'a))) is a 1991 Israeli film set during the [[1982 invasion of Lebanon]] by Israel and the [[1982 FIFA World Cup]].

==Plot==
A young Israeli soldier, Cohen, is kidnapped by a group of [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] fighters who hold him as a [[hostage]] during the conflict. The [[1982 FIFA World Cup]] happens to be on during the invasion, and their mutual love of [[association football]], and in particular the [[Italy national football team]], helps break down the barriers of nationalism and the historical baggage that the two bring. A kind of alliance is forged between the two men. Their relationship heads for a tragic ending as the Italian team, along with the goal scoring [[Paolo Rossi]], make their march toward winning the [[1982 FIFA World Cup Final]].

==Reception==
Writing in The Washington Post, [[Hal Hinson]] called ''Cup Final'' "a powerful film, and yet one of the most unassuming great movies ever made". Hanson comments on the relationship between the Cohen and Ziad (the Palestinian commander) as "beautifully mismatched" and that the film's central idea that the men who fight wars would "otherwise be hanging over each other's backyard fence as true friends" was stirringly presented.<ref>((Cite news|title=Cup Final|first=Hal|last=Hinson|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=6 November 1992|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/cupfinalnrhinson_a0a7c5.htm))</ref> [[Stephen Holden]], in The New York Times, focuses on the similarity between Ziad and Cohen's loyalties to their team (Italy) and their equally fervent soldierly loyalties to Palestine and Israel. Holden writes that, while the film is sometimes "ham-fisted" in its eagerness to make that point, it succeeds in its depictions of warfare, the media, and in the work of the two main actors, Moshe Ivgi. who plays Cohen, the kidnapped Israeli soldier, and Muhamad Bacri, who plays Ziad, the PLO commander.<ref>((Cite news|title=Review/Film; Using Sports as a Mirror Image For the Brutal Passions of War|first=Stephen|last=Holden|newspaper=The New York Times|date=12 August 1992|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/12/movies/review-film-using-sports-as-a-mirror-image-for-the-brutal-passions-of-war.html))</ref>

==Festivals==
*[[Berlin International Film Festival]] (20 February 1992)
*[[17th Moscow International Film Festival]] (1991)<ref name="Moscow1991">((cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1991 |title=17th Moscow International Film Festival (1991) |accessdate=2013-03-04 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403102003/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1991 |archivedate=2014-04-03 ))</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of association football films]]
*''[[Lebanon (2009 film)]]''
*''[[Strangers (2007 Israeli film)]]''
*''[[Waltz with Bashir]]''

==References==
((reflist))

== External links ==
* ((IMDb title|0101959|Cup Final (גמר גביע)))

[[Category:1990s Hebrew-language films]]
[[Category:1991 films]]
[[Category:1982 FIFA World Cup]]
[[Category:Israeli drama films]]
[[Category:Italy at the 1982 FIFA World Cup]]
[[Category:1990s road movies]]
[[Category:Films directed by Eran Riklis]]
[[Category:Films about the Israel Defense Forces]]
[[Category:Films set in the 1980s]]
[[Category:Israeli–Lebanese conflict films]]
[[Category:Israeli–Palestinian conflict films]]


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