According to one student of Israeli film , '' Three Days and a Child '' " ostensibly . . . sets up a dichotomy between Eli 's alienated life in Jerusalem and the kibbutz idyll . His life in the city is characterized by loneliness , despair , estrangement from his lover and a '' mise-en-scène '' that stresses desolation , graves and thorns . In the hero ’s consciousness , his kibbutz past is a memory of first love , flowering fields and flowing water . Yet . . . this perception of the protagonist is not so clear cut : life in the kibbutz was n’t so harmonious , whereas his life in Jerusalem was not so terrible . " '' Three Days and a Child '' was a great success , critically and commercially , selling some 308,000 tickets . It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Film and Oded Kotler won the award for Best Actor .
1967 Cannes Film Festival
1967 Cannes Film Festival
Three Days and a Child