The current events in Palestine and Israel have been a roadblock for Michael Winterbottom’s latest, Shoshana. Having premiered at TIFF in 2023, the film follows a tragic romance in 1930s Tel Aviv, where tensions are high as the British attempt to maintain order in a city on the brink of sweeping ideological change. Fortunately, Greenwich Entertainment came to the historical thriller’s rescue, and will open it in U.S. theaters next month.
Douglas Booth, Irina Starshenbaum, Harry Melling, and Aury Alby star in the film about a British officer in the anti-terrorist Palestinian Police whose romance with Shoshana, a daughter of the founder of the Zionist movement, causes tension as he and his partner track down an extremist Zionist leader.
Shoshana is directed by Winterbottom, from a script he co-wrote with Laurence Coriat and Paul Viragh. Winterbottom has often tackled thorny events throughout history. He’s known for such films as 24 Hour Party People, A Mighty Heart, Welcome to Sarajevo, Trishna, and Eleven Days in May.
Starshenbaum plays real-life figure Shoshana Borochov, who was married to Booth’s character Tom Wilkin. Melling plays violent Palestinian Police officer Geoffrey J. Morton, responsible for multiple deaths of Zionist rebels, with Alby as Avraham Stern, leader of the militant Zionist group Lehi and one of Morton’s targets.
Shoshana opens in theaters on July 25th.
