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55% Critic Match
The Assassin Next Door
“Beware of thy neighbor.”
5.5 / 10• 2009• 1h 42m•R• Hebrew
DramaThrillerActionCrime
Storyline
In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, two women, unknown to each other, live across the hall on the second floor. Galia is an assassin involved against her will with the local sex-traffic mafia. All she wants is to reunite with her little daughter that she left back home in Ukraine . Eleanor is a grocery store cashier and a battered wife. She dreams of winning the lottery and running away from her abusive husband. Galia and Eleanor don't know each other, but as neighbors they share two things: an adjoining wall and a strong need to plan their escape. As Galia disobeys her latest contract, a woman target, and Eleanor discovers that she's pregnant, the two women decide to take action against their oppressors in a fight for survival and freedom.
Cast & Crew
Olga Kurylenko
Galia
Lead
Ninet Tayeb
Elinor
Vladimir Friedman
Mishka
Zohar Shtrauss
Elinor's Husband
Liron Levo
Roni
Shalom Michaelshvili
Michael
Henry David
Peter
ER
Ester Rada
Barbie
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Danny Lerner's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Assassin Next Door is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
