Kill first
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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 |
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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 .
Awards
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award 2012
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National Board of Review Award 2012
- Top 5 documentaries
- National Society of Film Critics Award 2013
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New York Film Critics Circle Award 2012
- Best non-fiction film: 2nd place
- nominated for:
- Oscar 2013 ; Category: Best Documentary
- Producers Guild of America Award 2013; Category: Best Documentary
- Grimme Prize 2014
Web links
- Official Film Website (English)
- Kill him first in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kill him first at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Kill him first at Metacritic (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ Oscars winners and nominees 2013: Complete list. In: Los Angeles Times . February 25, 2013, accessed March 6, 2013 .
- ^ Gideon Levy: The Shin Bet scandal that never died . In: Haaretz . October 2, 2011
- ^ The Gatekeepers: Credits
- ↑ Peter Münch: "Kill First" on Arte - Where there shouldn't have been a camera . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 5, 2013
- ↑ Michael Phillips: "Gatekeepers" director takes on the fog of war . In: Chicago Tribune . February 22, 2013
- ^ Johanna Adorján : In conversation: Director Dror Moreh: No left pacifist weirdos . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 22, 2013
- ^ Mac Guff: News: The Gatekeepers