Decades after leaving the entertainment world to become an ultra-Orthodox Rabi, Uri Zohar, one of the founders of Israeli cinema, is once again directing a film. With the help of a group of young film school graduates, Zohar directs a film about a successful dancer discovering her faith who, much like Uri Zohar's own personal story, finds herself torn between two opposing world...
Isral - 1962 - 80’
(Etz o Palestine)
Avec Ori Levy, Topol.
Film de montage constitué d'actualités tournées à partir des années 30 par le pionnier du cinéma israélien, Nathan Axelrod. Dans ce film collectif, un classique du cinéma sioniste , le commentaire humoristique écrit par Zohar introduit un certain décalage vis-à-vis des valeurs collectives.
A comic and episodic satire, the film uses improvisation to illustrate the clash between fantasy and reality in real life. Although conceived in the style of Mekas' "Hallelujah the hills" (1962), it's an authentically Israeli satire, an openly rebellious and individualistic expression that poked fun at the sacred myths of earlier zionist films. The technique of film within the ...