Golda Meir (TV movie)

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Movie
German title Golda Meir
Original title A Woman Called Golda
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1982
length 240 minutes
Rod
Director Alan Gibson
script Harold guest
Steve Gethers
production Gene Corman
Lynn Guthrie
music Michel Legrand
camera Adam Greenberg
cut Robert F. Shugrue
occupation

Golda Meir (original title: A Woman Called Golda ) is a two-part American TV - biopic about Golda Meir with Ingrid Bergman in the titular lead role and Leonard Nimoy as Meir's husband.

action

In 1977, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir returned to her old school in Milwaukee and told the students about her life.

In flashbacks of her childhood and her youth in Russia is shown to their emigration to the United States, her engagement there for persecuted Jews. Meir marries the American Morris Meyerson, with whom she moves to Jerusalem and has two children. After the death of her husband, she began her political career up to the Prime Minister of Israel .

publication

The film was produced by Paramount Domestic Television and premiered on April 26, 1982. In 2009 Paramount released the film on DVD.

Awards

The film was nominated in seven categories for the Primetime Emmy Award at the 1983 awards ceremony and received three awards. Among other things, Ingrid Bergman, who died in August 1982, was posthumously named Best Actress.

The film also received two Golden Globe nominations . Again, Bergman won Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie .

literature

In 1982, the US published thriller - Author Michael Avallone an eponymous book based on the TV movie.

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