Life According to Agfa - Night Photography

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Life According to Agfa - Night Photography
Original title החיים על פי אגפא
Country of production Israel
original language Hebrew
Publishing year 1992
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Assi Dayan
script Assi Dayan
production Yoram Kislev
Rafi Bukai (only pro forma , not active)
music Naftali age
camera Yoav Kosh
cut Zohar Sela
occupation

and other

chronology

Successor  →
An Electric Blanket Named Moshe

Life According to Agfa - night shots (alternatively: Life, as testified by Agfa,החיים על פי אגפא, English Life According to Agfa ) is a 1992 Israeli feature film directed by Assi Dayan .

action

The film essentially takes place in a small pub in Tel Aviv , whose guests and employees represent a microcosm of Israeli society. Jews, Palestinians and Israeli Arabs meet here. The Jews are of European and Arab origin. Urban and rural dwellers also meet. When a group of chauvinist, racist Israeli soldiers walk into the pub, they insult an employee and sexually harass a waitress. You will then be kicked out of the pub. The soldiers who classify the pub as “left” feel their honor has been hurt. Additionally, she is furious that her car's tires are punctured. The next morning they return armed with military equipment and systematically murder everyone in the pub and the private rooms at the back with firearms and grenades .

background

The Israel Film Fund initially refused to support the film financially because it feared it would not be completed due to Dayan's poor health. Producer Yoram Kislev addressed these concerns by hiring Rafi Bukai as oversight manager. However, this was not active because of Dayan's resistance.

Agfa was a manufacturer of photographic films; Within the plot, the reference to the film title is that Liora, an employee of the pub, repeatedly takes snapshots of events in the pub.

Critical appraisal

Life According to Agfa received almost without exception good reviews and won the Israeli film prize Ophir Award for best film. He did well at the box office. The film received praise at the Jerusalem Film Festival and the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival . The film was also shown at the Toronto, Montpellier, Kolkata and Singapore festivals. One critic called the film a "nightmare of self-obliteration". The Haaretz newspaper called the film one of the most important in Israeli cinema.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Agfa" according to those who lived it . In: Haaretz , December 23, 2011; Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  2. ↑ A discussion of the film and its symbolism: see Eldad Kedem: The Kibbutz and Israeli Cinema: Deterritorializing Representation and Ideology (PhD, University of Amsterdam, 2007), pp. 133–37; Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  3. ^ A b Judd Ne'eman: Israeli Cinema . In: O. Leaman (Ed.): Companion Encyclopedia of Middle E: tern and North African Film . Routledge, 2001, p. 268.
  4. ^ Berlinale: 1993 winner . In: berlinale.de . Retrieved May 30, 2011.