A Brief History of Love (קיצור תולדות האוהבים)

Shaul. - Hi!

Hi.

What's up? -What are you doing here in Jerusalem at this hour?

I have to talk to Rami. -Rami isn't home.

Rami isn't here? Well, why should he be? Where is he?

Where is he... Where is he...

Probably screwing some girl, I don't know... -You're exaggerating.

Seriously, where is he?

Come on, Shaul, stop pretending you know...

I'm not pretending! -No, but you know better than I do where he is,

He practically tells you everything, so... stop it.

You are friends since... I don't know when, but so are we.

Tami, come on, get hold of yourself,

You have a great husband! Don't you know that?

"A Brief History of Love" Stories

Shmuel Kalderon

Aviva Ger

Neta Moran

Natan Segen-Cohen

Subtitles: Elrom Studios

Come here a second...

I want to ask you something, come...

What do you want? Okay... What?

I want you to do me a favor!

A favor? -A favor.

What kind of favor exactly, if I may ask?

No, you can't ask, you just have to say yes.

Well, it depends what kind of favor. -No, no, no...

No conditions, we're friends fifteen years... just say yes.

Okay, fine, tell me what it is, and I'll do it.

Sleep with me!

Stop it, come on, I won't get it up...

I really won't.

Okay, tell me, why can he have an affair and I can't.

But he doesn't.

Tami... he doesn't.

Screenplay, Production and Direction: Yitzhak Tzepel Yeshuron

You wouldn't believe it, but the single tickets are also all sold out.

Third row, twelfth row, seventeenth row...

It's a great hit.

Hey, Rami. -I was looking everywhere for you. Bring me some cognac.

Do you know that Tami's tried to call you maybe three times already?

I called her, I told her that I'm...

I told her that I'm at Bar Or's.

I know, in Haifa. Selling the parking lot.

Why didn't you shave?

You know what? You're also into that?

Don't lecture me... -At work, is everything Okay?

No! Don't lecture me.

First story: Tel Aviv, Summer, two friends,

I'm totally messed up, I don't know what I'm gonna' do.

What happened?

Nastasia, I don't know... I have no idea...

I have no idea what I'm doing with her, What I'm not doing with her...

I don't know...

Honestly, first time in my life, I don't know what I'm doing,

Nothing!

I love this woman. -You're way off.

I'm way off... Russian immigration, immigration...

No, you're way off, big time.

So I am. My whole life I'm way off,

But I love her. -So you love her...

The only thing I think about all the time is her, Okay?

Tell me, are you crazy?

I'm serious, I want to know, are you crazy?

You bring her over here, you want to have something to eat,

What is it with you, tell me? What is it with you?

Leave me alone, I'm tired. Okay, come on, let's go home.

Listen... -No, no, Not now, I'm too tired.

No, really... -Listen to me a second... - I don't...

Stop it, enough. -Just for one second.

No, I don't want to hear you, I want to go home.

I have 150 workers' unions to deal with first thing in the morning,

don't want to, let's go home.

It's,a no-win situation, that's what's breaking your heart.

Like in that movie, The Bridges of...

Come on, what's the name of that...

If they would have gotten married at the end,

you think anyone would have cared?

It's a mess up, that's what's breaking your heart,

crying, the tears...

They spent the night together..

When it was dawn, they realized they were at the city square,

tired, feeling sorry for themselves...

Lately they've been talking more and more about women,

about missing it, about the meaning of life.

Midlife crisis caught Rami off-guard,

and he tried to protect himself with the only weapon he had...

a new love. It was Nastasia.

A Russian woman with a good heart and romantic soul.

Shaul had only his wife, he felt he was deprived

Rami's love was big enough for both of them.

Say, Rami, are you having an affair? -Yes.

No, I'm serious, are you?

You know I don't like these questions.

No, I know you do, l... also know who she is,

I just want you to say it.

So go ahead, tell me, if you know, tell me who she is.

No, I want you to tell me. I'm your wife, tell me.

Listen, I'm... I'm asking you

I'm really... I'm yelling at you,

Do something... Let's do something with our relationship.

I'm asking you, help me, help us. -What do you want?

What relations? What help?

I don't understand, what... what's wrong with us?

Honestly... I don't understand why you are

blowing things out of proportion. Really...

Come on.

Stop the car here a minute.

Okay, if that's what you want... I know what it is...

What's this thing with you...

Don't know what it is you want, but... okay...

Get in the car already...

Can we go on already, can we? -What is it? Did I scare you?

You took the phone, you were alone a moment?

Oh, come on, enough of this nonsense...

This is really humiliating, Rami.

Very humiliating living like this.

Tell me, how... how do you Live your life?

Can you explain that to me?

I'm telling you... You're like... Iike shifting sands,

I can't live like this. I...

I look at other girls? Okay, I look a little at other girls.

But I never questioned...

our marriage,

Come on, this is too much, this can't go on.

And our love life? -I love you, I love you.

I love you, yes.

I love you! Really, I love you.

Okay?

Okay, okay.

Second Story: Tel Aviv, evening, Shula waits for her husband,

Hello?

Hi, Shaul...

Where are you? I'm worried...

Come on, it's six o'clock already.

How is Rami?

Fine, I left you some... potatoes in the oven.

Okay, I thought you were you were with him this morning.

Okay, fine, I'm waiting. in about one hour?

Goodbye.

Hi!

Go away! Go!

Wait, let me explain.

No... No, no, no. I'm calling the police!

What police... -You'll have to tell that to the police...

That's it.

Go away! - What's with you, are you crazy? -No!

Calm down... -Excuse me... -Open the window...

I can't... -Look... -I'm not looking into your apartment,

I'm looking at the apartment below. -I don't care!

Open the window, listen to me a second.

No need to call the police. No police... Let me...

Open the door for just one second... -No, no, no... -I'm coming down.

You'll have to explain that to the police. -So listen to me a second,

One second... -What do you want to say? -You locked the door, right?

Listen to me, my brother is a private detective.

He made me come here, and watch the apartment downstairs,

What is it, private detective? -This should have never had happened.

Say, aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Standing like that on roof tops peeking into people's apartments?

Listen, I don't need all this mess,

It's a crazy period I'm going through,

I'm a student... -Yeah, right...

I really am, may l come in? -No, really...

Aren't you ashamed of yourself? standing like that, on the...

roof, peeking into other people's houses?

What kind of thing is that? -I'm a working person, I won't harm you,

I never even do things I don't care about.

And now I find myself stuck here, doing my brother's jobs.

I... I I stayed in the business...

I stayed in some construction business, and l, there is...

I'm thinking of buying a tractor,

besides, this whole story, this job, and l...

This is bullshit... -It's not...

Will you let me come down a minute?

Thank you, thank you, thank you, you saved me.

I don't know how I got myself messed up with... with all of this,

it's my brother with his construction jobs...

Okay, you're lucky. You really are.

Thanks, really. I'm actually on my way to Australia,

My friends are waiting there for me, I have a job ready there for me...

I used to be a taxi driver there. -Okay...

I was in Australia for half a year, with my girlfriend...

I don't know... It's my brother, and his...

I really didn't want to get into this, and l...

I get myself in trouble over and over again.

I wanted to thank you again for this.

Really, it's not like me, this whole....

I... -Okay.

It's really rare, finding people like you, that help...

No, you've got this... generosity in you.

You're open...

Really, thank you... -Well, good luck.

I get to meet lots of people...

Through my brother, that wouldn't have done what you have done for me.

I was stuck up here On the roof for a few hours...

Can I have a glass of water?

Okay, fine wait here.

I really thought it's a modern city...