During the 19 days of the arabisrael war, director amos gitai joined the israeli army. Best middle eastern movies on netflix new middle eastern. A former architecture student who turned to filmmaking following a harrowing neardeath experience, amos gitai entered the world of film as a documentarian and gradually gravitated toward more fictional celluloid subjects. He has kept this hidden all this while, living his gloomy and mundane life. We are led by weinraub and his friend ruso on a day that begins with quiet.
The kippur war was exactly 27 years ago, in october 1973. Jason solomons, who writes movie columns for the observer and the mail on sunday, contributed the book foreword. Review of kippur, a film directed by amos gitai, by fred camper, a. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by gitai and mariejose sanselme. Lullaby to my father is a 2012 documentary film directed by amos gitai that premiered at the venice film festival. Arriving 20 years after the assassination, it tries both to delve into those incendiary circumstances and. With liron levo, tomer russo, uri klauzner, yoram hattab. One day, a tentacled alien parasite takes over his penis. During the yom kippur war, in which egypt and syria launched attacks in sinai and the golan. Gitai has chosen stylistic cinema over propaganda, and he is a director who regularly gets bogged down a bit in form. Liron levo, tomer ruso, uri ran kaluzner, yoram hattab, guy amir, juliano merr ran. Looking to watch kippur on your tv, phone, or tablet.
The film takes place in 1973 during the yom kippur war in which egypt and syria launched attacks in sinai and the golan heights. Murakoshi complains to it that he is unable to walk around outside, what with. Director amos gitais agonizing account, which he cowrote with mariejose sansalme, chronicles the life of a weinraub liron levo, a young member of a medical unit that rescued the. When the war breaks out, weinraub and his friend ruso race out to the golan heights to join their unit. The story is told from the perspective of israeli soldiers. When the yom kippur war breaks out, two israeli soldiers find themselves. Film movement has picked up north american rights to amos gitais venice 2018 award winner a tramway in jerusalem, featuring an ensemble that includes mathieu amalric. Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the amos gitai directed movie via subscription can be difficult, so we here at. I didnt want to remember being in a helicopter rescue crew and. Kippur is a 2000 israeli film directed by amos gitai and starring liron levo, tomer russo, and uri klauzner.
His new film, kippur, about the 1973 invasion of israel by egypt and. They cannot find their unit, so decide to join an air force emergency firstaid unit. Kippur 2000 torrent downloads download kippur 2000 movie from torrent downloads selecting either torrent or magnet link and watch kippur full movie on hd. Amos gitai celebrity profile check out the latest amos gitai photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Thirtyfive years after field diary, in which he documented life in the occupied territories of the gaza strip and the. Geoff andrew, linda badley, kathryn bergeron, garrett chaffinquiway, roumiana deltcheva, nezih erdogan, jeanmichel. Grandmaster william cheung pressure point striking seminar day 1 duration. The israeli filmmakers latest feature is a multicultural drama exploring the cultural divides that separate the inhabitants of one of the. Filmmaker amos gitai was a firsthand witness to the 1973 yom kippur war, in which troops from egypt and syria chose one of the holiest days of the jewish calendar to. Amos gitai is israels most internationally recognized filmmakerand its most controversial.
The year 2000 approaches in jerusalems orthodox mea shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the torah and the talmud. Acclaimed filmmaker amos gitais semiautobiographical account of the 1973 yom kippur war from the point of view of a young soldier. In 1973, during the kippur war, an israeli helicopter with a first aid crew was shot down over the golan heights. Kippur is a 2000 israeli drama war film directed by amos gitai.
Comments 0 comments please login or create a free account to post. On the year of his birth, his parents changed the family name to gitai, which is the hebrew translation of the german name weinraub. Weinraub was a student at the bauhaus design and architecture school in the city of dessau when hitler closed the school in. Download apk file of the gitabase reader app according to your device android version. Filmmaker amos gitai was a firsthand witness to the 1973 yom kippur war, in which troops from egypt and syria chose one of the holiest days of the jewish calendar to launch a surprise attack on. Born in haifa in 1950, as the second son of architect munio weinraub and former sionist activist efratia margalit.
We first met in cannes on kadosh 1999 and then on kippur 2000, your story of surviving a helicopter crash on yom kippur, october 6, 1973, during the holiday that turned into the yom kippur war. Yom kippur, which is known as the day of atonement. The film stars actors liron levo, tomer russo and uri klauzner in principal roles. On yom kippur day of atonement, october 6, war broke out between syriaegypt and israel. Find similar and related movies for kippur 2001 amos gitai on allmovie. The film relates the story of gitais father, munio weinraub 19091970, an eminent israeli architect. Murakoshi shinta is a student prone to wild delusions.
Review of kippur, a film directed by amos gitai, by fred. When the helicopter he was riding in was shot down by enemy gunfire, the cockpit exploded and the ensuing crash killed nearly everyone onboard except for gitai. Israels oneman new wave, amos gitai, surveys his nations hardscrabble quotidian in alila, which dallies with both kiarostamian spirit and altmanesque fabric, examining the intersecting lives of a dozen or so tel aviv residents. Continuing the autobiographical torrent begun nearly 30 years.
It has at very least three unique scenes the initial drive to the golan heights, the. In october 1973, egyptian and syrian armies attacked israel on the most important jewish religious holiday. Gitais sometimes controversial works often strive to make sense of the endless cycle of violence in the middle east, and his acute sense of social. His new film, kippur, about the 1973 invasion of israel by egypt and syria, is a breakthrough that deserves to take its place among the greatest war movies. We are led by weinraub and his friend ruso on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind. Kippur 2000 amos gitai, liron levo, tomer russo, uri klauzner. My version has a few additions and changes to the text, added links, and frame enlargements.