| An Intimate Story | |
| Director: | Nadav Levitan |
| Producer: | Eitan Evan Nissim Levy |
| Starring: | Chava Alberstein Alexander Peleg |
| Music: | Nachum Heiman |
| Cinematography: | Gadi Danzig |
| Editing: | Isaac Sehayek |
| Distributor: | Ergo Media (US) |
| Runtime: | 87 minutes |
| Country: | Israel |
| Language: | Hebrew |
An Intimate Story (he|סיפור אינטימי) is a 1981 Israeli drama directed by Nadav Levitan. It was based on a short story written by Levitan and filmed in its entirety in Kibbutz Einat.[1]
The film follows a married couple, Leah (Chava Alberstein) and Ya'akov (Alexander Peleg), who live on a kibbutz in the 1970s. Over a period of ten years, all of their attempts to conceive a child have been unsuccessful and their marriage begins to disintegrate as each suffers silently and blames the other. Their difficulties are compounded - and the damaging effects of the lack of privacy in an insular communal environment underscored - when their inability to conceive becomes a matter of public knowledge and gossip among the kibbutz members.
Levitan and Chava Alberstein, met on the set of the film and got married after that.