Guy Shalom woke up on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, watching missiles from the window of his house. The 27-year-old Tel Aviv-born actor studies at…
Inspired by such epic war movies as Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, and The Pacific, The Stronghold seeks to tell a complex Yom Kippur War story.
This movie, which is based on the memories of soldiers who were there and uses their real names, focuses on the human cost of the war, although the politics of how it was handled are never far away.