Waltz with Bashir

Summary: An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

Release Date: June 12, 2008

Genres: Drama, Biography, Animation

Director: Ari Folman

Writer: Ari Folman

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d'Ici, Razor Film Produktion GmbH, Noga Communication - Channel 8, New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Israel Film Fund, HOT, YLE Teema, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Israel, France, Germany, United States, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia

Language: Hebrew

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Domestic: $ 2,283,849

International: $ 8,895,523

Box office:

Budget:$1.5MDomestic:$2.3MInternational:$8.9MWorldwide:$11.2M

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The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this -5% lower than the critics.

96%91%

The Metacritic audience rated this -13% lower than the critics.

Metacritic Meta:

91/100

Metacritic User:

78/100

11%25%

11% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

25% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White50%Arab25%Jewish25%

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Race	White	Total	Visuals	Info
Kairos	11	11		A third party facial recognition software company we used to maintain objectivity. Upload images to the facial recognition demo page to check the veracity of our data set. Or use their API and do a bulk peer review if you'd like. Source: https://www.kairos.com/demos
Forebears	7	7
Ethnic	1	1		This is the most reliable data source for accurate ethnic breakdowns of famous people. Often the information is crowdsourced by users and they cite all their sources (family trees, obituaries, census archives, etc.) on the bottom of the page. The only issue is converting their ambiguous and inconsistent verdicts into quantifiable variables. Source: https://ethnicelebs.com/
Total	19	19
Cast Percentages	100%	100%	{"name":"Cast Percentages","series":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}
U.S. Population (1990) Percentage	75.6%		{"name":"U.S. Population (1990)","series":[{"name":"White","y":75.6,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Arab","y":0.35,"color":"#DF5353"},{"name":"Asian","y":2.78,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":12.1,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Indian","y":0.33,"color":"#7798BF"},{"name":"Indigenous","y":0.8,"color":"#aaeeee"},{"name":"Latino","y":9,"color":"#eeaaee"},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":3.9,"color":"#55BF3B"},{"name":"Jewish","y":2.22,"color":"#ff0066"}],"prefix":""}	Source: US Census (Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (1990) Representation	+24.4		{"name":"U.S. Population (1990)","series":[["White",75.6]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Percentage	81.25%		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2000)","series":[{"name":"White","y":6413300000000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":276400000000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":609100000000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":40300000000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":494000000000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":60300000000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: Selig Center, University of Georgia
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Representation	+18.75		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2000)","series":[["White",81.25]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage	80.3%		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":12390076235472,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":505394534547,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":1335090043788,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":94074954628,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":663077520000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":442226921916,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation	+19.7		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[["White",80.3]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
World population (1994) Percentage	17.5%		{"name":"World population (1994) ","series":[{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":10858008714,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":31824086856,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":7464553788,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"White","y":97977676579,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":59956007624,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":194901148969,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":40885774057,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":114090347331,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":1899620891,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (1994) Representation	+82.5		{"name":"World population (1994) ","series":[["White",17.5]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
World Buying Power Percentage	36.48%		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[{"name":"White","y":3010602822170000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":771525888400000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":91700962050000,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":526264226360000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":174285727610000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":148984454560000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":526400066100000,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":2431392083750000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":572687873900000,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation	+63.52		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[["White",36.48]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
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