{{Infobox film | name = An Intimate Story | image = An Intimate Story Poster.jpg | alt = | native_name = סיפור אינטימי | director = Nadav Levitan | producer = Eitan Evan<br />Nissim Levy | writer = Nadav Levitan | screenplay = | story = | based_on = | narrator = | starring = Chava Alberstein<br />Alexander Peleg | music = Nachum Heiman | cinematography = Gadi Danzig | editing = Isaac Sehayek | studio = | distributor = Ergo Media (US) | released = {{Film date|1981}} | runtime = 87 minutes | country = Israel | language = Hebrew | budget = | gross = }} '''''An Intimate Story''''' ({{langx|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.<ref name="Anderman">Nirit Anderman (January 12, 2010), [https://web.archive.org/web/20110606214955/http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/nadav-levitan-1945-2010-1.261305 "Nadav Levitan, 1945-2010"], ''Haaretz'' (accessed November 10, 2012).</ref>

The script was written by Levitan together with Dalia Mevorach . It is the first of a trilogy of films Nadav Levitan wrote and directed which revolve around life in the Kibbutz. The other two are "Stalin's Disciples" (1987) and "No Names On The Doors" (1997).

==Plot== 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 &ndash; and the damaging effects of the lack of privacy in an insular communal environment underscored &ndash; when their inability to conceive becomes a matter of public knowledge and gossip among the kibbutz members.

==Cast== *Chava Alberstein as Leah Gootman *Alexander Peleg as Ya'akov *Dan Toren *Gilat Ankori *Peter Freistadt *Shmuel Shilo *Shmuel Wolf

==Production== Levitan and Chava Alberstein, met on the set of the film and got married after that.<ref name="Anderman" /> ==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0083084|An Intimate Story}}

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