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Movie
German title Kill First - The Israeli Secret Service
Original title שומרי הסף
The Gatekeepers
Country of production Israel , Germany , France
original language Hebrew , English
Publishing year 2012
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Dror Moreh
script Dror Moreh
production Estelle Fialon
Philippa Kowarsky
Dror Moreh
music Regis Baillet
Jerome Chassagnard
Alex Claude
Daniel Meir
camera Avner Shahaf
Lee Klein
cut Oron Adar
occupation

Kill First - The Israeli Secret Service ( Hebrew שומרי הסף, English The Gatekeepers ) is an Israeli documentary film by director Dror Moreh . Six former heads of the Israeli domestic intelligence service Shin Bet - Avraham Shalom , Ja'akov Peri , Karmi Gilon , Ami Ajalon , Avi Dichter and Juval Diskin - report on their work. The documentary was in 2013 for an Oscar nomination.

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One of the main themes of the film is the legality and ethical justification of the occupation of the Palestinian territories, the use of torture on Palestinian prisoners, the ethical justification of so-called targeted killings and the killing or injuring of bystanders in such actions.

The events reported in the film are illustrated with archive footage and computer-animated scenes. The film is essentially divided into seven parts:

  • No strategy, just tactics: This describes the role the Shin Bet played during the Six Day War and the ensuing occupation of the West Bank , Gaza , the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem .
  • Forget morals: About the Kav-300 affair in 1984, in which two Palestinian kidnappers who had already been captured were murdered by agents of the Shin Bets.
  • One's terrorist is another's freedom fighter: on the peace process after the Oslo Agreement .
  • Our own flesh and blood: On Jewish terrorism by the Gush Emunim underground movement and the murder of Yitzhak Rabin by Jigal Amir .
  • Victory makes you suffer: About negotiations with the Palestinians during the Second Intifada .
  • Collateral damage: About the killing of Yahya Ayyash and other Hamas activists and the bystanders who died in the process.
  • The old man at the end of the aisle: On questioning one's own work and its ethical and strategic influence on the State of Israel.

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The co-producers include Arte and NDR .

The archive recordings, which were originally rotated in an aspect ratio of 4: 3, were horizontally distorted to fit the 16: 9 aspect ratio of the documentation.

Director Moreh reported in interviews that Errol Morris ' documentary The Fog of War : Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara inspired the film.

The animations were provided by the French company Mac Guff .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Oscars winners and nominees 2013: Complete list. In: Los Angeles Times . February 25, 2013, accessed March 6, 2013 .
  2. ^ Gideon Levy: The Shin Bet scandal that never died . In: Haaretz . October 2, 2011
  3. ^ The Gatekeepers: Credits
  4. ↑ Peter Münch: "Kill First" on Arte - Where there shouldn't have been a camera . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 5, 2013
  5. ↑ Michael Phillips: "Gatekeepers" director takes on the fog of war . In: Chicago Tribune . February 22, 2013
  6. ^ Johanna Adorján : In conversation: Director Dror Moreh: No left pacifist weirdos . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 22, 2013
  7. ^ Mac Guff: News: The Gatekeepers