Kedma

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Movie
German title Kedma
Original title קדמה / Kedmah
Country of production Israel , France , Italy
original language Hebrew , Arabic , French , German , Polish , Russian , Yiddish
Publishing year 2002
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Amos Gitai
script Amos Gitai,
Mordechai golden pike,
Marie-Jose Sanselme
production Amos Gitai,
Marin Karmitz ,
Alain Mamou-Mani,
Laurent Truchot
music David Darling,
Manfred Eicher
camera Giorgos Arvanitis
cut Kobi Netanel
occupation
  • Andrei Kashkar: Yanush
  • Helena Yaralova: Rossa
  • Yussuf Abu-Warda: Arabs
  • Moni Moshonov: Klibanov
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis : Moussa
  • Menachem Lang: Menachem
  • Sendi Bar: Yardena
  • Tomer Russo: Milek
  • Liron Levo: Gideon
  • Roman Hazanowski: Roman
  • Dalia Shachaf: Dalia
  • Keren Ben Rafael: Isha
  • Sasha Chernichovsky: Sacha
  • Ravda Suleiman: Jaffra
  • Gal Altschuler: Ygal

Kedma is an Israeli-French-Italian film drama , in which Amos Gitai directed by. The historical drama takes place in 1948 during the civil war in Palestine between Jews and Arabs.

action

The rusty cargo ship Kedma reached the coast of the British Mandate Palestine in May 1948 , shortly before the independence of the State of Israel . On board are several hundred Jews from various European countries who survived the Holocaust and are now coming to Palestine as illegal immigrants. British soldiers want to prevent them from entering the country. The film shows the fate of a group of immigrants who managed to escape the soldiers. In a makeshift camp of the Jewish underground organization Palmach , they are armed with weapons and take part in the civil war. In the monologues of an Arab farmer and a Jewish refugee who has suffered much in Europe, Gitai expresses positions on both sides.

Awards and festivals

The film was first shown at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2002 . In September 2002 it screened at the Toronto International Film Festival . At the São Paulo International Film Festival 2002 it was named best film.

Reviews

"Since his film is less interested in the people than in the rather pathetic theses that he puts in their mouths, this first Israeli-Palestinian war remains a museum snapshot separate from the current escalation."

Others

In 2002, the Japanese director Toshi Fujiwara made the documentary Independence: Around the Film 'Kedma', a film by Amos Gitai about the making of Gitai's film Kedma .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards at Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ Katja Nicodemus: Shackles of anger. Die Zeit, May 23, 2002, accessed on March 10, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Independence: Around the Film 'Kedma' in the Internet Movie Database (English)