Hearat Shulayim
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Hearat Shulayim / הערת שוליים |
| Country of production | Israel |
| original language | Hebrew |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joseph Cedar |
| script | Joseph Cedar |
| production |
Leon Edery Moshe Edery David Mandil |
| music | Amit Poznansky |
| camera | Yaron Sharp |
| cut | Einat Glaser-Zarhin |
| occupation | |
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Hearat Shulayim ( Hebrew הערת שוליים), international title Footnote , is a 2011 Israeli comedy film directed by Joseph Cedar .
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Like his son Uriel, Professor Eliezer Shkolnik is engaged in Talmudic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In contrast to his son, who is popular, publishes lively and repeatedly receives awards, Eliezer had worked on his life's work for many years and never published it. His discovery after many years of meticulous research was to result in a major publication. Colleague Yehuda Grossmann thwarted the plans and published Eliezer's discovery based on his own findings shortly before his planned publication. Even if Eliezer is considered an expert in his field, he never fully recovered from this setback. He has never received the Israel Prize , which he hopes for every year, although he has always been nominated for 16 years. Since Intimfeind Grossmann is on the jury, Eliezer will never receive the award - reason enough for Eliezer to publicly abuse the award winners as charlatans and non-masters and to withdraw misanthropically for years . The relationship with his son Uriel is also deteriorating, Eliezer sees every success of Uriel, who now teaches as a professor, as an affront to himself.
One day Eliezer receives a call from the Ministry of Education that he will receive the Israel Prize this year. Eliezer is surprised and delighted and the rest of the family, after their initial reluctance, is relieved that the life's work of the husband and father is now being recognized. Uriel, on the other hand, is asked to go to the ministry after the newspaper Hareetz announced the award to Eliezer. Due to a mix-up, Eliezer was told about the receipt of the prize on the phone and not the actual prize winner - Uriel. Uriel is amazed, but after a short time makes it clear that the award cannot be withdrawn from Eliezer retrospectively. This would kill him. When Grossmann insists on Uriel's award, he gets loud and accuses Grossmann of never having awarded his father the prize because of personal animosity. He knew that Eliezer had been nominated for 16 years because he himself proposed him annually. The dispute becomes tangible. In the end, Uriel agrees to tell his father about the mistake, but changes his mind when he sees Eliezer celebrate the award with colleagues. In a personal conversation with Grossmann, Uriel makes it clear that withdrawing the award would ultimately lead to a final break between him and his father. Grossmann finally agrees to award Eliezer, but sets two conditions: Uriel has to write the reasons for the award to the jury, as Eliezer's only legacy is that he is named in a footnote to a work by his teacher Feinstein. In addition, if Uriel waived the award, he could never be awarded the Israel Prize himself. Uriel agrees to the terms.
He writes the jury statement, which he finds difficult. Meanwhile, Eliezer gives Hareetz an interview in which he primarily criticizes his son's scientific work as superficial and denies them the right to be called "Talmudic studies". Uriel is outraged and takes out his bad mood on students, his wife and his son. During a theatrical performance, he finally confesses to his mother that he should have received the award, but that despite the mix-up, he insisted on his father's award. His mother now quietly suffers with him, but does not reveal anything. Eliezer, meanwhile, realizes that the jury's statement is a strange combination of the wordמְצוּדָה(Stronghold), which appears repeatedly in his son's writings. Grossmann, who signed the jury's statement, never used it. Other word combinations also indicate that Uriel is the author of the jury's statement. Eliezer also notes that his first name was never given when he spoke to the Minister of Education. A casual pre-award meeting referred to by the Minister refers to a conference at which Uriel was supposed to speak. Eliezer is shocked, follows the day of the award speech in a speechless state, endures the dress rehearsal in the International Convention Center Jerusalem without saying a word and finally waits tense behind the stage with the other winners while the award ceremony begins.
production
Hearat Shulayim was the fourth feature film directed by Joseph Cedar. Cedar studied philosophy and theater history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; his father is the Israel Prize winner Howard Cedar . Cedar stated that the film idea was based on something that almost happened to him ("It is remotely based on something that almost happened to me") and that he imagined in the film how the situation would have developed. The Institute for Talmudic Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was again a "remarkable place", full of rivalry between professors, who in turn were very eccentric, so that he fell in love with each one of them and made them the focus of his film.
Hearat Shulayim was filmed in Jerusalem . The International Convention Center Jerusalem and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem served as locations. Laura Sheim created the costumes and Arad Sawat created the film . The Israel Film Fund, the Jerusalem Film and Television Fund and the Avi-Chai Foundation contributed to the financing of the film. The film marked the return of Shlomo Bar-Aba to the big screen after a long period of abstinence; his last movie Kvalim was made in 1992.
The film premiered on May 14, 2011 at the Cannes International Film Festival . In Israel it was released in theaters on May 25, 2011. The film was shown at festivals in Germany, including in 2013 as part of the 4th Jewish Film Festival in Munich.
Awards (selection)
Joseph Cedar received the Best Screenplay Award in Cannes in 2011 . Hearat Shulayim also competed for the Golden Palm . The film received a total of ten Ophir Awards in 2011 and was nominated for three other awards. The National Board of Review was one Hearat Shulayim the top five films of 2011.
As the winner of the Ophir Awards for Best Picture , Hearat Shulayim automatically became Israel's contribution to the 2012 Academy Awards. He prevailed in the run-up and was nominated for an Oscar in 2012 in the category of Best Foreign Language Film . He also received a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay.
Web links
- Hearat Shulayim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b press kit for the film (PDF) festival-cannes.com
- ↑ Debra Kamin: Cedar details his "Footnote" . variety.com, May 13, 2011.
- ↑ münchenticket.de