Prisoners of War
TV Show · Drama · Thriller

Prisoners of War is the gripping drama on which the American series Homeland is based. When three Israeli Defence Force reservists are captured behind enemy lines in Lebanon their fate is unknown, that is until seventeen years later, when they mysteriously return – two of them alive, the third in a coffin.

2010 · 1h 1m
Starring Yoram Toledano, Ishai Golan, Assi Cohen
Director Gideon Raff

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Homecoming
    The hostage negotiation for the release of the Israeli soldiers has ended. Nimrode Klein, Uri Zach and Amiel Ben-Chorin are coming home. The first two are alive, while Amiel was killed in captivity. The soldiers return and meet their families. Nimrode meets Talia, who’s been waiting all these years and leading the campaign for his release. He meets his 19-year-old daughter Dana and his son whom he’s never met, 17-year-old Hatzav. Uri meets his fiancée Nurit, and discovers she married his brother several years after he became a POW, an act that broke his family apart. Yael Ben-Chorin imagines her brother Amiel, what he’d look like and how he’d act if he had returned alive.
    1h 1m
  • EPISODE 2
    The Facility, Pt. 1
    Nimrode and Uri are taken to an interrogation facility for former POWs in Zikron Ya’akov, where they meet Haim, a military psychologist who’s supposed to figure out exactly what they went through in captivity. Talia, in an emotional upheaval from her husband’s return, struggles to deal with the fact that he’s suddenly back home. Nurit is torn between Yaki and Uri, whose return has awakened feelings she thought were long gone. Yael Ben- Chorin arrives at the Abu-Kabir Morgue and demands to see her brother’s body. Ilan is the only one who manages to calm her down and get her to give up on the idea.
    49m
  • EPISODE 3
    The Facility Part 2
    Haim continues to interrogate Nimrode and Uri in the facility. They do not know that an intelligence officer is decoding their secret language. Talia tries to visit Nimrode, but Haim does not allow her to see him, and she goes back home empty handed. Nurit prepares herself for Uri’s return. She makes dinner and cuts her hair, much to Yaki’s displeasure. Yael and Ilan grow close, and they go to the beach together. Yael still sees her brother Amiel in her mind's eye. Talia makes a spectacular dinner and waits, along with her children, for Nimrode’s return. Nimrode and Uri are released from the interrogation facility, but do not make things easy for the women waiting for them back home.
    48m
  • EPISODE 4
    Letters from Mom
    Uri is depressed. He refuses to get out of bed. Nurit tries to talk to him, but he won’t answer her phone calls. Yoske gives him a stack of letters his mother wrote to him throughout the years. Uri reads the letters at the cemetery, where he meets a lovely young woman, Iris, who invites him out for coffee. Nimrode is left alone in the house, now that his family is back to their daily routine. Haim visits him at home and tries to get him to talk in detail about his time in captivity. Afterward, he toys with journalists, and suffers a panic attack.
    48m
  • EPISODE 5
    Who Let the Dogs Out?
    Everyone attends the funeral of Amiel Ben Horin but Yael feels all alone; she sees her brother everywhere and tries to convince him to leave her alone and let her go on with her life.
    46m
  • EPISODE 6
    The Journal
    Gadi Sukenik – a well-known television reporter – interviews Talia and Nimrode for a special morning broadcast, where Talia hears for the first time that Nimrode is going to start working for an advertising agency. They fight. Talia takes Dana to see Dr. Ostrovsky, a psychologist. Dana puts his professionalism to the test. Talia meets her friend Shiri and confesses that she finds Nimrode’s presence oppressive. Uri starts working at his father’s general store, where he meets his nephew Asaf for the first time, who invites him to his Bar-Mitzvah. Uri turns the invitation down. In the afternoon, Iris comes over to visit him and they have a picnic together. Iris gives him a gift, a journal where he can unload anything that’s troubling him. Nimrode starts working and discovers that the life of a professional is not what he had been hoping for. Talia and Nimrode make up and have a romantic dinner together. That night, Uri opens the journal and starts filling its pages with his memories.
    41m

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Cast & Crew

  • Y‌T
    Yoram Toledano
    Nimrode Klein
  • Ishai Golan
    Uri Zach
  • A‌C
    Assi Cohen
    Amiel Ben-Horin
  • Yael Abecassis
    Talia Klein
  • Mili Avital
    Nurit Halevi-Zach
  • Adi Ezroni
    Yael Ben Horin
  • Gideon Raff
    Director
  • Gideon Raff
    Producer
  • Gideon Raff
    Writer
  • Gideon Raff
    Creator

About

Prisoners of War

Drama

Prisoners of War is the gripping drama on which the American series Homeland is based. When three Israeli Defence Force reservists are captured behind enemy lines in Lebanon their fate is unknown, that is until seventeen years later, when they mysteriously return – two of them alive, the third in a coffin.

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Studio
MHz Choice
Released
2010
Rated
14+
Region of Origin
Israel
© 2009 Keshet Broadcasting Ltd. And Mr. Gideon Raff. All rights reserved.

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