Dead End Street is a 1982 film

Film

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 directed by Yaky Yosha

Yaky Yosha

Yaky Yosha is an international critically acclaimed, award-winning film director from Israel, known for realism. Yosha’s films have often stirred social controversy in his homeland and outside of it. About his work Yosha once said: "Art only as Aesthetics is meaningless. As an artist, I am trying...

. Inspired by a true story, it is about a young prostitute who participated in a documentary about her efforts to abandon the streets, only to commit suicide hours before the movie was to be broadcast.

Like Yosha's previous two films, Dead End Street represented Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 at Cannes

Cannes Film Festival

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. Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

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 contributed three songs to the soundtrack.

Plot

Alice, a young street walker, receives an opportunity of a lifetime when a television crew casts her to star in a documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 about prostitution in Tel-Aviv.
Alice, a 17 year old girl from the gutters of the city, is exposed for the first time to the glitzy world of make believe.

For her personal safety and the crew’s convenience, Alice is invited, during the shoot, to stay in the home of Yoram, the director

Film director

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 and Mary, his producer

Film producer

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-girlfriend. Alice's presence exceeds all expectations as she lays out her gloomy life story in front of the cameras. When Mary notices that Yoram gets more than just professionally involved with Alice, she wraps the production as quickly as possible.
Alice doesn't want to go back to the streets, but she doesn’t belong in the ‘decent’ world either. Alice finds herself in a dead end.