Pourquoi Israël (Israel, Why) is a 1973 French documentary film by Claude Lanzmann in his directorial debut. Premiered just three days after the Yom Kippur War in Israel, it examines life in Israel 25 years after the birth of the state. Lanzmann spends time with, among others, German-Jewish émigrés, intellectuals, dock workers, police, prison inmates and the newly arrived, surveying life in the new homeland. The title is often incorrectly given as a question ("Why Israel?"); however, Lanzmann intended it as an answer or an explanation from a collection of viewpoints.
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| Directed by | Claude Lanzmann |
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Running time | 185 minutes |
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International media attention arose following an incident in Hamburg, where leftist groups violently prevented a showing in October 2009, claiming the movie took a one-sided Zionist perspective.[1]
References
edit- ^ Benjamin Weinthal: 'Why Israel' film canceled after violent German leftist protest, Jerusalem Post, 22 Nov 2009
External links
edit- http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3406801259.html
- Pourquoi Israël at IMDb
- http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Ku-Lu/Lanzmann-Claude.html
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