A HISTORY OF ISRAELI CINEMA - DVD

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• Release Year: 2009
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: The first 1933 - 1978 starts with the Zionist movement and ends with the first re-visitation of that history. The second 1978 - 2005 starts at the beginning of the political wave until the more recent personal cinema. However chronological, both episodes cover most of the genres, themes and periods of Israeli cinema - from the beginning of the Zionist Mouvement to the most personal stories - from commercial to politically engaged directors, from the local to the universal. A HISTORY OF ISRAELI CINEMA tells the story of the building of a gaze on a society torn by ethnics, religious, and political conflicts. It attempts to understand, to denounce or to explore this complex subjects, always searching for the right ethic, the right form: to explore or transform its own definition and its place in the world.
• Cast: Naftali Alter, Mohammad Bakri, Haim Bouzaglo
• Director: Raphaël Nadjari
• Runtime: 208 min
• Media Format: movie