Promised Land (2011)

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Movie
German title Promised Land
Original title The Promise
Country of production Great Britain
original language English , German
Publishing year 2011
length 356 minutes
Rod
Director Peter Kosminsky
script Hammoudie Boqaie ,
Saar Datner ,
Guy Raz
production David Aukin ,
Hal Vogel
music Debbie Wiseman
camera David Higgs
cut David Blackmore
occupation

Gelobtes Land (The Promise) is a four-part TV series by director Peter Kosminsky from 2011. The series won the One World Media Award in the Drama category in the same year . The German first broadcast took place on April 20, 2012 on arte .

The plot of the film begins in 2005, in which the main character Erin Matthews travels to Israel. There Erin uses a diary to research her grandfather's past in Palestine around 1948.

action

Present - Erin Matthews' trip to Israel

Len Matthews, now over 80 years old, is paralyzed by a severe stroke in an English hospital. When her grandfather's household was dissolved in Armley ( Leeds , West Yorkshire , England) in June 2005, Erin Matthews discovered his diary. It describes three years of his time as a soldier, including his experiences during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ( DP Camp Belsen ). Len was transferred to the camp for six weeks on April 21, 1945. The diary also describes Lens’s experiences in Palestine in the period before and shortly after the UN General Assembly for the establishment of Israel up to the withdrawal of the British occupation forces on May 14, 1948.

As a result, Lens’s granddaughter Erin decides to spend her bridge year with her schoolmate Eliza in Israel. Eighteen-year-old Erin is traveling to the Israeli port city of Caesarea for a few months . The hostess is Eliza, who has British-Israeli citizenship and has to do her military service in Israel for two years. The grandparents, aunts and uncles of Eliza's father Max Meyer were murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp .

During the trip, the Englishwoman immersed herself in the diary. She first reads the ending, which raises several questions: Why was Len dishonorably discharged from the army? Why did he go to jail? And what about the key that Len had to give back to his servant Mohammed? She wants to stay in the Middle East until this puzzle is solved.

When he arrives in Israel, Erin meets the young Israeli Paul, who is Eliza's brother. Paul is an ex-army member and calls himself a soldier for peace . He became an anti-Zionist after his experience in the Palestinian city of Hebron . He drives Erin to the British war cemetery in Ramleh , where soldiers Nash and Robbins, comrades of Len Matthews, are buried. He then drives her to Nablus , where she meets the Israeli Arabs Omar Habash, Alimah Habash and Karif Habash. They lead them to the descendants of Mohammed, the friend of their grandfather, who originally lived in Haifa and later moved to Hebron and the Gaza Strip .

Past of Len Matthews in Palestine

The film now switches to the past of Len Matthews, who was stationed in the 6th Airborne Division at the Stella Maris military base in the British Mandate in Palestine from August 1945 . The military base is located in the Stella Maris Monastery ( Hebrew מנזר סטלה מאריס) or Monastery of the Madonna of Mount Carmel , a Carmelite monastery on the Carmel Mountains , in Haifa , Israel. Len serves there under the command of the Czech captain Richard Rowntree, whose entire tender attention and love is for his cactus on the windowsill and whose typists consist exclusively of young, Jewish men.

After all his experiences in Germany, Len has a heart for Jews. On the beach, the British soldiers have to collect Jewish refugees who jump out of the refugee ships into the sea in order to then get to the land promised by God. The British intercept all Jews if possible; To identify the Jews, paint a large X in light blue - the color of the Star of David - on their foreheads.

When Len is walking on the beach at night, Ayala Lifchitz runs into him. He just lets the woman go without taking her to the British camp. She had previously shown him her tattooed number from the Auschwitz concentration camp . With this, Len disregards immigration regulations. Len is to be punished subsequently, Rowntree takes him under protection and then moderates the sentence decisively.

Len is also supposed to fire a British soldier and send it back, against which Len successfully rebels. It's about the Jewish private Alec Hyman. Len also has to keep protecting him from anti-Semitism within the British Army. After the attack of July 22, 1946 , his British colleagues tried to murder Alec Hyman while he was sitting naked in the bathtub. Although Alec Hyman is of Jewish descent, he defends the Arab Palestinians and - despite the withdrawal order - does not want to leave them defenseless.

OP Kiryat Chaim

Len blows a lockdown and search operation in Kirjat Chaim ( Hebrew קריית חיים) because the village was deserted and the weapons were taken away overnight. The young male Jewish typists hired by Rowntree had betrayed the clandestine operation so the Jewish residents of Kirjat Khaim were warned. On their return to the military base on Stella Maris , the British soldiers are serenaded by a group of school children. The soldiers receive bouquets of flowers with crown anemones . Rowntree explains that the anemones, or Kalaniot ( Hebrew כַּלָּנִוית) in Hebrew mean "red for the paratrooper's beret, black for his heart".

Ziphora and Clara

Lens Corporal Jackie Clough - a Christian - introduces him to two Jewish women: Ziphora and Clara in the Haifa city guest house in September 1945. Clara Rosenbaum was trained by the city of Haifa to entertain the British to support the establishment of the State of Israel. Before that, she was in Auschwitz with her mother and father, who worked for the Berliner Morgenpost . The father is now with the Irgun . Len and Clara become lovers. Jackie Clough and Ziphora also become lovers. When Ziphora visits Jackie on a Sunday, she seeks out Len, who is currently listening to a Beniamino Gigli record . Both rave about Gigli and Donizetti . Len then complains to Jackie that Ziphora "turned on" him. Jackie, who had previously said that everyone thought Len was "gay", replies that he wouldn't even notice if someone turned him on, even if they sat on him.

After the decision of the UN General Assembly to found Israel and before the withdrawal of the British occupying power, the British still want Kol Zion HaLochemet ( Hebrew קוֹל צִיּוֹן הלוֹחֶמֶת) (Eng. "Voice of the fighting Zion") - locate the Irgun underground radio station and arrest the staff. Jackie Clough lets a woman on the station run. As Len later ascertains, it is his Jewish lover Ziphora. Len then confronts him: “Why did you let her go? How much did you tell her? ”Jackie replies to Len:“ Everything she wanted to know. ”Len asks him how he could do that. Jackie replies: "For the same reason you told Clara about Robbins and Nash!" Len lets Jackie Clough go and is later interrogated about it, Rowntree takes him under protection. The corporal who had deserted stayed in Israel and switched to the Jewish side after the withdrawal of the British troops. This is how Len sees Jackie Clough shooting at fighting units of the Arab Palestinians. The moment - when he sees Jackie shooting the Palestinians - he can still see on his deathbed.

Shortly before the withdrawal of the British troops, Len saw his Jewish lover Clara for the last time, who was involved in the Deir Yasin massacre . He accuses her of lying to him. She replies: “Not everything I told you was a lie, Len! I did what I had to do to protect your life, as I told you. "Clara implores him to stay:" We would be together! Stay !!! “, she calls after him. Len will never forget this moment. He can still see this picture in the hospital, where he is severely paralyzed.

Yaakov Maazel

Captain Richard Rowntree has Len questioned and learns from Leo Rosenbaum through Len. Len says Leo Rosenbaum would expect information (in return for Clara's affection). His behavior was as if to say, "There is a price for my daughter's friendship." Rowntree orders him to tell Leo that Len sympathizes with the Jewish cause and has access to highly confidential information and that he likes his Would meet friends. Rowntree decides that Len should "play the Jew for a day" and asks Len to attend a rally against the immigration quota in civilian clothes. Without Lens knowledge, however, he serves as a decoy. Yaakov Maazel is shot by Robbins in front of the doors of a synagogue. Thereupon Clara's father throws Len out of the apartment: “We are stateless, but not stupid”, he justifies the expulsion. Len and Clara must now meet in secret.

OP Bulldog House

After Clara learns that Len has to go to the King David Hotel , she tries everything with her feminine charms that he does not return there because she knows about the impending attack on July 22, 1946. The forthcoming Operation Bulldog , during which Tel Aviv is to be cordoned off in 1946, is discussed in the hotel . The aim of the operation is to destroy the military organization Irgun . All men capable of weapons in Tel Aviv and the surrounding area are to be interrogated and synagogues and hospitals are to be searched for weapons. Palestinian civil servants and typists are not allowed to find out about this. There is a risk that the Jewish employees could undermine the secret operation. When Len confronts her after the attack, Clara denies having known about the planned attack. She only slept with him out of love. In the subsequently implemented Bulldog House secret operation, a large X in light blue - the color of the Star of David - is painted on the forehead to identify the Jews . Some of the people stigmatized in this way show the number of the Auschwitz concentration camp tattooed on their arm and insult the British as “Nazis”.

Awram Klein

Dov Gruner
The British hanged men Hugh Robbins and Frank Nash are buried in the Ramleh military cemetery.

The film describes the life and death of Irgun member Awram Klein. The role of Awram Klein is based in part on the life story of Dov Gruner (1912–1947), a Zionist underground fighter. Gruner was executed, among other things, for bomb attacks that killed the British. In 1947, Klein penetrates the Tiberias police station , where he shoots three police officers. The seriously injured man is then sentenced to death by hanging. The Zionist radio shouts: “What you do to one of us will be done to two of you.” Then there is an attack on Lens unit: The British are shot in peace on the street in the middle of a city in front of the Jews. Private Derek Toogood is shot in the head at close range, Len and Jackie Clough - who both sleep with Jewish women (Clara and Ziphora) - are merely injured. They are treated at the hospital in Haifa, where they meet Awram Klein, who lies there with a broken jaw. After he has recovered, he is to be taken to Acre , where he is to be hanged. However, Klein is said to be freed from Irgun members disguised as doctors while still in the hospital. The rescue attempt fails, Len still stands up for Klein, who is beaten up by a police officer. When Klein is in Acre, Rowntree gives Len the "order to save his life". Len is supposed to convince Klein to submit a pardon to the Privy Council . Rowntree pretends that the Irgun are taking hostages to free Klein.

The Sergeants affair (Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice)

Upon arrival at Clara's apartment, Len is disturbed: the door is open, the furnishings have been destroyed and the apartment appears to be deserted. Clara is in the bathtub. Much of her hair was torn out and she was smeared all over with lubricating oil and feathers. Clara explains crying that she was tarred and feathered by the sons of Pinchas because she got involved with a British man. Len comforts her and stays with her. He explains to her that he will have to leave later, that there is an appointment, but that he cannot say what it is. Clara can't believe that even after everything that's been done to her, he still can't trust her. Len gives in and tells her everything: meeting place, time, the name of the spy and that he is meeting with Sergeant Hugh Robbins and Sergeant Frank Nash. At the meeting point, however, Len, Robbins and Nash are captured by the Irgun; they were betrayed by Clara Rosenbaum. After Avraham Klein was hanged, Robbins and Nash were also hanged on July 30, 1947. Len is spared. Pregnant Clara tells her Irgun colleagues in order to protect the father of her child: "Do you also want to take the father away from a Jewish child?" Len is interrogated several times during his capture and is supposed to participate in the Irgun, he declines the offer: “Tell Clara, the answer is no.” The incident is based on the so-called Sergeants affair ( Hebrew פָּרָשַׁת הסַרְגֶ'נְטים) when Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice were hanged near Netanya in July 1947 in revenge for a hanged Irgun member.

Abu-Hassan Mohammed

Sergeant Len was defending the tea supplier of his company Abu-Hassan Mohammed in Palestine in 1946 when he was insulted by British soldiers. They then become friends. After Len gives the Arab flowers for his wife, Mohammed invites him to En Hod , where the family lives. The village is now called "Ein Hod" and is a Jewish cultural center.

In 1947, Len was hospitalized in Haifa after an attack on his unit. He then visits his Palestinian friend Abu-Hassan Mohammed again and teaches his son Hassan in geometry . He wishes him a future with a good education in mathematics so that he can rebuild Palestine. When Abu-Hassan Mohammed and his family had to flee following the decision of the UN General Assembly in 1947, Abu-Hassan Mohammed gave the key to their house in Haifa to his son Hassan. When the family escapes, Hassan runs away. Len finds him again, but has to see the boy get shot and bleed to death in his arms. Hassan gives Len the key to their property with the promise to return it to the family. Len cannot keep his promise because he has to go to prison for desertion . Two generations later, his granddaughter Erin fulfills the promise her grandfather once made to the bleeding boy. Erin and Omar enter the Gaza Strip through a tunnel, where they are taken to the home of a suicide bomber . There Erin meets the young girl Samira. The next morning, IDF soldiers appear to blow up the house as part of a punitive operation and want to use Samira as a shield to get into the house of another suicide bomber. Eliza accompanies Samira through the streets. There they are taken to the room of a bedridden old woman. It is Mohammed's daughter Jawda, who gives Erin the key.

Locations

Bet Jemal ( Hebrew בית ג'מאל) served as the filming location for the British base in Palestine: Stella Maris .

The series was shot entirely in Israel. The crew consisted almost entirely of Israelis. The film was made by the Israeli production company Lama Films, which was very unusual for a British production. Even the scene in Leeds was shot in an Israeli studio, everything else in and around Jerusalem , Haifa , Tel Aviv-Jaffa , Caesarea , Akkon , Givat Brenner , Ein Hod, Pek'in , Ramla and Bet Dschemal . The scenes at London Heathrow Airport were shot at Ben Gurion Airport . The rubble of the King David Hotel was filmed in blue screen technology in a car park in Petach Tikwa . Parts of Jerusalem's Old City depicted Nablus in the West Bank, the Hebrew scenes were filmed in Acre, while Gaza was replaced by Jisr al-Zarqa during the filming . The base of the paratroopers in the Stella Maris Monastery or Monastery of the Madonna of Mount Carmel in Haifa was received in the monastery of Beit Jemal .

reception

Claire Foy at the RTS The Promise event March 2011.

England

The first part saw 1.8 million viewers, followed by three more parts with 1.2 million, 1.3 million and 1.2 million viewers.

The first episode was well received, but Andrew Anthony was very critical on The Observer . AA Gill wrote in The Sunday Times that he was unimpressed. The Daily Express called it "... a burning bush of genius in the middle of a desert of well-intentioned television drama." The Daily Telegraph said the film deserves an award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . Caitlin Moran titled the film in The Times as “probably the best drama of the year.” For the second episode, Andrew Billen in The Times portrayed that Len and Erin were protecting the Arab Palestinians: “Kosminsky satisfies the hope of all of us by assigning blame distributed in exactly the same proportions ”. Nevertheless, he praised the "immense and emotional" quality of the series.

Christina Patterson praised the series in The Independent and said that the series was "nicely shot [...] well written [...] balanced". Rachel Cooke explained in New Statesman that the film was ambitious, well-written, superbly played and professionally executed, and that the film was also provocative and challenging. The Observer said the film was "the best thing to see on TV this year, if not a decade."

Stephen Kelly praised the film in the Tribune . Harriet Sherwood and Ian Black, Jerusalem correspondent and editor of the Guardian in the Middle East, and David Chater, Times staff , even called the film brave.

The London free newspaper Metro criticized the third episode but praised the series as a whole. In a preview of the previous episode, The Times said the series was "ambitious". Time Out selected the program for the tip of the day and gave it a 4-star recommendation: "An attempt to demystify, understand and humanize the conflict [...] brave, brave and successful." Andrew Anthony recognized in The Observer some mistakes, but it is an "extraordinary drama."

A press attaché from the Israeli embassy in London condemned the drama in The Jewish Chronicle as the worst example of anti-Israel propaganda he had ever seen on television, saying it was "a new category of hostility towards Israel". The Zionist Federation and the Board of Deputies of British Jews both also filed letters of complaint. The Jewish Chronicle itself felt that this was an attempt to tell a story: the story of both sides was marked by continuity and complexity . The film conveys a "study that shows how depressing it is to select historical facts in order to convey a politically charged message".

Novelist Howard Jacobson stated in a letter to the editor to The Independent : “Almost every Palestinian appeared sympathetic, almost every Jew disliked. The lives of most Palestinians could be portrayed in poor conditions. The life of the Israeli Jews could reflect the prosperity [...] I also saw Palestinians there with an extraordinary charm. But I could only laugh mockingly when after every picture that showed Palestinians with soft eyes, pictures of Jews with hard faces followed. "

Jonathan Freedland stated in an interview with Jacobson during the Jewish Book Week 2011: "Kosminsky uses anti-Semitic tropes and wrongly depicts Israel and Zionism as a result of the Holocaust, the imagery of which he abuses".

Historian and professor David Cesarani accused Kosminsky of "fraud [...] with massive historical distortion": The Balfour Declaration of 1917 had been omitted with the promise of a national Jewish homeland; the egoistic British geostrategic interests had been downplayed; the responsibility of the British as “chief architects of the Palestinian tragedy” had been relieved: “only the Jews were responsible for it [...]”; the three-sided conflict between the British, Arabs and Jews would be turned "into a one-sided" one.

Liel Leibovitz , author for the US Jewish online magazine Tablet , said that "the series is a rare and exemplary work to show the history of Israel with accuracy, sensitivity and courage".

When Ofcom 44 complaints were received about the series. Ofcom then replied that the series did not violate the code of conduct. Viewers complained that the drama was an example of anti-Semitism. The filmmakers were incited by racial hatred against Israel. But Ofcom replied: "... individual Jewish and Israeli characters may be portrayed in a negative light." That is why the film is not anti-Semitic.

In his first keynote address to the Royal Television Society in London on May 23, 2011, David Abraham, Director General of Channel 4 stated: “At a time when other networks are more conservative, status is more important than ever to Channel 4 questioning the quo, challenging debates, taking risks and being brave [...] I can't think of a better example than Peter Kosminsky's investigation of the Israeli / Palestinian question in The Promise . "

The Promise was nominated for the British Academy Television Award 2011 and for the Royal Television Society Award 2011 in the category "Best Drama Serial". The series was beaten by two other productions on Channel 4: Any Human Heart , a TV movie by William Boyd , and the drama series Top Boy .

In an interview on The Jewish Chronicle , Michael Samuels , the filmmaker of Any Human Heart , described The Promise series : “I respect his point of view. You have to have it, otherwise you can't write ”.

The Promise was nominated for Best Mini-Series of 2010/11 for the Banff World Media Festival in 2011 . On May 10, 2011, the film was named Best Drama of 2010/11 at the One World Media Awards in London.

Other countries

From March 21, 2011, the French Canal + showed the drama for four weeks under the title The Promise: Le Serment ('The Promise: The Oath'). Liberation described the drama as "admirable" and praised the great director, who was able to tell a "tragedy with two voices" "without pointing a finger to one side or the other." Les Échos described the series as "extraordinary, amazingly intelligent ”and praised the film's dialogue and ambition. The television magazine Télérama called it “remarkable”, as the series called the problem “by name.” Le Figaro wrote that it was “a splendid film adaptation and masterful plot […] perfectly balanced […] great television” and gave it a maximum rating of four stars.

From January 2012 the series was also broadcast on SVT Sweden , YLE Finland , DR Denmark , RUV Iceland , RTV Slovenia , Globosat Brazil and TVO Canada . DR Denmark showed the film in the early evening on DR2 at Easter 2012, with the title Løftet som bandt (“The promise given”). In Germany it was first broadcast on Arte on April 20 and April 27, 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ One World Media Awards 2011
  2. ↑ Promised Land (1/4) ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on arte.tv.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  3. ↑ Interview: Peter Kosminsky In: The Jewish Chronicle. Online, February 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ The Gallows In: etzel.org.il. Retrieved January 17, 2008.
  5. ↑ Commentary on the DVD, time: 04:10.
  6. ↑ DVD featurette: Behind the Scenes - Filming in Israel for 2005, at 00:20
  7. ^ Peter Kosminsky on The Promise, his drama about Palestine , The Daily Telegraph , February 4, 2011.
  8. ↑ Commentary on the DVD, time: 1:06:15
  9. ^ A b Rachel Cooke, Peter Kosminsky: Britain's humiliation in Palestine , The Observer , January 23, 2011.
  10. ↑ Peter Kosminsky: Episode 4 Q&A. Channel 4 website, February 27, 2011.
  11. ↑ Commentary on the DVD, time: 41:00
  12. ↑ TV ratings roundups: February 6, 2010 , February 14, 2010 , February 20, 2010 , February 27, 2010. In: Digital Spy .
  13. ↑ Tom Sutcliffe: The Weekend's TV. In: The Independent , February 7, 2011.
  14. ^ John Crace: TV review. In: The Guardian , February 7, 2011. "It's that rarest of TV beasts: a show that doesn't patronize its audience, (mostly) steers clear of cliches and trusts the characters to tell the story in their own time."
  15. ↑ Andrew Billen: Weekend TV: The Promise. In: The Times , February 7, 2011. “formidable”.
  16. ↑ James Walton: Review. In: The Daily Telegraph , February 7, 2011. “will richly deserve any gongs that come its way”.
  17. ^ Matt Baylis: Burning Bush of Genius. In: Daily Express , February 7, 2011, p. 39; also from Broadcast , February 7, 2011. "This four-parter is a little burning bush of genius in the desert of well-intentioned TV dramas."
  18. ↑ a b Caitlin Moran: TV column. In: The Times , February 12, 2010. "almost certainly the best drama of the year."
  19. ↑ James Delingpole: Grandfather's footsteps. ( Memento of the original of February 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Spectator , February 12, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spectator.co.uk
  20. ^ Hugh Montgomery: The Promise. In: Independent on Sunday of February 13, 2011. “[In the 1940s sequences,] Kosminsky balanced the demands of big-picture history and intimate human drama with a quite remarkable assurance. Contrastingly, the modern-day storyline was hobbled by an inertia that seemed at odds with its tumultuous subject matter. "
  21. ^ Andrew Anthony: Rewind TV: The Promise. In: The Observer of February 13, 2011. “Anthony felt it considerably better than Kosminsky's previous dramas and that it 'seldom relaxed its grip..a serious, powerful and nuanced drama' but said: 'At first there was a stockpile of emotional capital awarded to the Jewish side of the equation, with horrifying footage from Nazi concentration camps setting up the audience's sympathy for the existence of Israel. But a closer look revealed that the scales had been subtly loaded ... the problem with the difference in treatment of the two sides is not, as some may claim, that it favors the Arab cause but that it does a disservice to Arabs themselves. We glimpse the psychological complexities of the English observers and their Jewish Israeli hosts, but the Palestinian Arabs are largely ciphers on whom western guilt can be readily projected. They remain, in other words, what critics of orientalism like to call 'other'. We're not privy to the doubts and conflicts of their beliefs, and consequently as characters they're not quite as worthy of our belief. ""
  22. ^ AA Gill: It's not believable - and that's a huge barrier. In: The Sunday Times of February 13, 2011. “predictably scant and underwritten”; “Performances… occasionally rose to be adequate”; “Faint and shrill”.
  23. ↑ Andrew Billen: Weekend TV. The Times , February 14, 2011.
  24. ↑ Christina Patterson: Israel needs its friends more than ever. In: The Independent , February 23, 2011. “It's finely crafted, beautifully shot and extremely well written. It's also extremely balanced. ”"
  25. ^ Rachel Cooke: The Promise. In: New Statesman of February 17, 2011. “Ambitious, well-written, superbly acted and expertly made, it is also provocative and challenging.”
  26. ↑ Stephen Kelly: Compelling drama is outside comfort zone. In: Tribune of February 25, 2011. “as good as anything currently showing on British television… beautifully filmed and superbly acted… a multi-layered drama that is both thought-provoking and compelling.”
  27. ↑ Harriet Sherwood: The Promise: powerful TV drama at its best. In: The Guardian website, February 7, 2011. “Vivid, harrowing and utterly compelling… This is a magnificent and powerful piece of drama, television at its best. Watch it if you can; I can't recommend it enough. " and Ian Black: The Promise delivers but still divides. In: The Guardian website, February 14, 2011. “It's a real achievement that this four-parter is so well-grounded in the history of the world's most intractable conflict.”
  28. ↑ David Chater: The Promise: sure to cause controversy. In: The Times of February 5, 2011. “An ambitious drama on a subject of paramount importance ... immensely watchable.”
  29. ↑ Rachel Tarley: The Promise what the thinking person's take on the Middle East. In: Metro on February 6, 2011. “a carefully and beautifully executed film… an incredibly accomplished drama.”
  30. ↑ Rachel Tarley: The Promise is not without its flaws but was powerful once again. In: Metro , February 13, 2011. “Despite these character flaws, this drama is a careful and thorough examination of a patch of British history many viewers will have known very little about”.
  31. ↑ Rachel Tarley: The Promise is not being Fulfilled. In: Metro , February 21, 2011. “The excellent pace and tension that this drama boasted in the first few episodes has given way to a lethargic script and almost sloppy plots.”
  32. ^ Keith Watson: The Promise: An epic journey that delivered an uplifting message. In: Metro , February 25, 2011. "if you stuck to your guns, this intelligent and emotional exploration of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine, a landmine that could blow up at any moment, richly repaid that commitment."
  33. ^ Sunday's TV: The Promise. In: The Times of February 27, 2011. “It is refreshing to see an ambitious drama tackling a subject of such importance.”
  34. ^ Phil Harrison: Pick of the day: The Promise. Time Out (London), February 24 - March 2, 2011, p. 127. “a genuine attempt to demystify, understand and humanize this apparently intractable conflict. Brave filmmaking and a brave, entirely successful commission too. "
  35. ↑ Andrew Anthony: Rewind TV. In: The Observer , March 6, 2011. “The story was stretched still further by strained geographical leaps from Jerusalem to Haifa to Hebron and Gaza, whose only rationale appeared to be to maximize the depiction of Israeli wrongdoing […] Nor was it feasible that, having been shot and then held captive in a hole in the ground for weeks, that Erin's grandfather, Sergeant Matthews would still be almost single-handedly carrying out the British army's duties in Palestine. Any more than it was likely that he and a young Arab boy would have walked around the unfolding massacre at Deir Yassin, where 107 Arabs were slaughtered by the Irgun on the eve of Israel's creation, like a pair of sightseers visiting Pompeii. But for all these faults, and the lopsided storytelling, this was still an exceptional drama. "
  36. ↑ Marcus Dysch : The Promise has an 'anti-Israel premise'. In: The Jewish Chronicle , February 24, 2011.
  37. ↑ Marcus Dysch: Experts: The Promise deliberately demonises Israel. In: The Jewish Chronicle, March 3, 2011.
  38. ↑ 'The Promise' - Letter to Channel 4. ( Memento of the original dated November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Board of Deputies of British Jews , March 3, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bod.org.uk
  39. ^ ZF response to The Promise. Zionist Federation , March 4, 2011.
  40. ↑ David Abraham, Camilla Campbell: Channel 4 response to the Board of Deputies ( Memento of the original of January 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from 17/18. Retrieved April 1, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bod.org.uk
  41. ↑ Marcus Dysch: Promise critics: Stop moaning, you have Friday Night Dinner , The Jewish Chronicle , April 7, 2011.
  42. ↑ Balihar Khalsa : C4 bosses defend Kosminsky drama , broadcast , April 8, 2011.
  43. ^ Robyn Rosen : Broadcast regulator rejects every complaint on Promise , The Jewish Chronicle , April 21, 2011.
  44. ↑ Simon Round: Fatah could have written The Promise . In: The Jewish Chronicle of March 3, 2011. And Jenni Frazer: Under the duvet on thejc.com
  45. ^ Howard Jacobson : Ludicrous, brainwashed prejudice. In: The Independent , April 23, 2011.
  46. ^ Howard Jacobson and Jonathan Freedland: Last Words: Howard Jacobson in conversation with Jonathan Freedland. ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Jewish Book Week , March 6, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jewishbookweek.com
  47. ^ David Cesarani : The Promise: an exercise in British self-exculpation. In: The Guardian Comment is Free website, March 4, 2011.
  48. ^ Liel Leibovitz: War and Remembrance. In: Tablet Magazine , March 16, 2011: “The show's writer and director, Peter Kosminsky, walks this tightrope of evenhandedness remarkably well […] To Kosminsky's credit, nothing and no one in the series is simple, and even the most zealous characters are allowed moments of humanity, a few good arguments in support of their cause, and a few moments of grace. "
  49. ↑ a b Ofcom adjudication. ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ofcom, April 2011. Retrieved January 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ofcom.org.uk
  50. ^ Robyn Rosen: Broadcast regulator rejects every complaint on Promise. In: The Jewish Chronicle, April 21, 2011.
  51. ↑ David Abraham's Royal Television Society speech: full text. In: The Guardian of May 24, 2011.
  52. ↑ Bafta TV awards 2011: nominations in full. In: The Guardian, April 26, 2011.
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  55. ^ John Plunkett: RTS program awards: 'extraordinary' night for Channel 4. In: The Guardian of March 21, 2012.
  56. ↑ Ann Joseph: The director who beat The Promise to a Bafta. In: The Jewish Chronicle, May 26, 2011.
  57. ↑ Jennie Punter: Rockies miniseries noms gather titles from across the globe. In: Variety , April 18, 2011.
  58. ^ Banff World Media Festival: The Fiction Rockies. ( Memento of April 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved May 27, 2011.
  59. ↑ One World Media Awards 2011 on oneworldmedia.org.uk. Accessed on January 9, 2015. “The jury acknowledges the laudable ambition of taking on this complex, ever-evolving and much debated subject and the difficulty of exploring it in a way which is immediate, undogmatic and surprising, and which explores a multi- generational story through compelling characters. It also bridges two periods in a way which smartly sheds new light on both. "
  60. ^ Isabel Hanne: Double-voiced diary of a Promise kept. In: Liberation , March 21, 2011. “Admirable […] the art of The Promise is in its ambiguity, its double-valuedness, its lack of Manicheanism […] The excellent director […] points a finger neither at one camp nor the other, but tells a story of two paths, a tragedy in two voices ”
  61. ↑ Thierry Gandillot: The Promise keeps its promises. In: Les Echos , March 21, 2011. “Exceptional, stunningly intelligent” […] the serious acting and considered dialogue “measure up to the ambition of this film, which does not bring unanimity but makes a proof of sincerity.”
  62. ^ Sophie Bourdais: From one occupation to another. In: Télérama , March 22, 2011. “Confronts the subject head-on, a remarkable mini-series in four episodes […] unless you are already bristling with certainty, you come out of The Promise with far more questions than answers.”
  63. ↑ Muriel Frat: Raison et sentiments en Palestine (French) , Le Figaro . March 21, 2011, p. 50. Accessed on January 13, 2015. "" magnifiquement filmée et magistralement interprétée ... le traitement du conflit israélo-palestinien est parfaitement équilibré. Ce n'est pas la moindre qualité de cette fiction romanesque. De la grande television. »“