Metamorphosis of a Melody (original title: Milim) is a 1996 Israeli

Cinema of Israel

Cinema of Israel refers to movie production in Israel since its founding in 1948. Most Israeli films are produced in Hebrew. Israel has been nominated for more Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film than any other country in the Middle East....

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 by Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai , born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli filmmaker and director. He is mainly known for making documentaries and experimental / minimalist feature films...

. The film starring Ronit Elkabetz

Ronit Elkabetz

Ronit Elkabetz is an Israeli actress and filmmaker. She works in both Israeli and French cinema. She has won three Ophir Awards and has received a total of seven nominations.- Biography :...

 and Samuel Fuller

Samuel Fuller

Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.-Personal life:...

 is based on The Jewish War by Josephus

Josephus

Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...

. It is a cinematic realisation of stage-based productions by Gitai.

Plot

The film follows Jewish resistance as they face a series of challenges against the Romans. Chronicling the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC to the fall and destruction of Jerusalem in the First Jewish-Roman War in AD 70.

Cast

• Ronit Elkabetz
  Ronit Elkabetz
  Ronit Elkabetz is an Israeli actress and filmmaker. She works in both Israeli and French cinema. She has won three Ophir Awards and has received a total of seven nominations.- Biography :...
  
  
• Samuel Fuller
  Samuel Fuller
  Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.-Personal life:...
  
   as Flavius (narrator)
• Efratia Gitai as Memory Holder
• Masha Itkina as Nightingale
• Jerome Koenig as Emperor Titus
• Enrico Lo Verso
  Enrico Lo Verso
  Enrico Lo Verso is an Italian actor.He studied acting at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and INDA|Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico.-Filmography:* Atto di dolore * Nulla ci può fermare...
  
   as Defender of Masada
• Ilan Mosovitch
• Shuli Rand
  Shuli Rand
  Shalom "Shuli" Rand is an Israeli film actor, writer, and singer. He is a Haredi Jew and is best known in the English-speaking world for his acting his role as the protagonist in Ushpizin as well as being the writer of the movie.-Personal history:Rand was born Shalom Rand and raised in Bnei...
  
   as The Cantor
• Hanna Schygulla
  Hanna Schygulla
  Hanna Schygulla is a German actress and chanson singer. She is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema.-Life and career:Schygulla was born in Königshütte, Upper Silesia,...
  
  as Spirit of Exile