# An Intimate Story
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{{Infobox film
| name = An Intimate Story
| image = An Intimate Story Poster.jpg
| alt =
| native_name = סיפור אינטימי
| director = [Nadav Levitan](/source/Nadav_Levitan)
| producer = Eitan Evan
Nissim Levy
| writer = [Nadav Levitan](/source/Nadav_Levitan)
| screenplay =
| story =
| based_on =
| narrator =
| starring = [Chava Alberstein](/source/Chava_Alberstein)
Alexander Peleg
| music = [Nachum Heiman](/source/Nachum_Heiman)
| cinematography = Gadi Danzig
| editing = Isaac Sehayek
| studio =
| distributor = Ergo Media (US)
| released = {{Film date|1981}}
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = Israel
| language = [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''An Intimate Story''''' ({{langx|he|סיפור אינטימי}}) is a 1981 [Israel](/source/Israel)i drama directed by [Nadav Levitan](/source/Nadav_Levitan). It was based on a short story written by Levitan and filmed in its entirety in [Kibbutz](/source/Kibbutz) [Einat](/source/Einat).[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](/source/Haaretz)'' (accessed November 10, 2012).]
The script was written by Levitan together with Dalia Mevorach . It is the first of a [trilogy](/source/trilogy) of films Nadav Levitan wrote and directed which revolve around life in the Kibbutz. The other two are "[Stalin's Disciples](/source/Stalin's_Disciples)" (1987) and "[No Names On The Doors" (1997).](/source/No_Names_on_the_Doors)
==Plot==
The film follows a married couple, Leah ([Chava Alberstein](/source/Chava_Alberstein)) and Ya'akov (Alexander Peleg), who live on a [kibbutz](/source/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](/source/privacy) in an insular communal environment underscored – when their inability to conceive becomes a matter of public knowledge and [gossip](/source/gossip) among the kibbutz members.
==Cast==
*[Chava Alberstein](/source/Chava_Alberstein) as Leah Gootman
*Alexander Peleg as Ya'akov
*Dan Toren
*Gilat Ankori
*Peter Freistadt
*[Shmuel Shilo](/source/Shmuel_Shilo)
*[Shmuel Wolf](/source/Shmuel_Wolf)
==Production==
Levitan and [Chava Alberstein](/source/Chava_Alberstein), met on the set of the film and got married after that.