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The Middleman

A lament for a favorite character who never made it to the final cut | Script | Fresh Soup

Etgar Keret
Mar 8, 2022
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The screenplay for The Middleman, the mini-series I wrote and directed with Shira a few years ago, for the French channel Arte, is the closest I’ve ever gotten to writing a novel. The original screenplay was a hundred pages longer than the eventual filmed version. During the process of cutting down the series, we had to give up on the character of Latif…

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