Uri Barbash

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Uri Barbash (born December 24, 1946 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli film director .

Life

Barbash was born as the eldest son of the Jewish Mossad functionary Menahem Barbash (1916–2006) in Tel Aviv and spent part of his childhood in South America. Barbash's brother Benny Barbash is a writer and screenwriter. Barbash was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement and attended the Tichon-Hadash humanistic high school in Tel Aviv. From the age of 16 he lived alone in the city because his family had moved back to South America with his father. Barbash first studied Hebrew and theater at Tel Aviv University and came to film by chance during his studies, so he became a driver of a film production group and later a production assistant and production manager. He studied film production at the London International Film School . Barbash returned to Israel in 1973 and took part in the Yom Kippur War as a soldier .

Barbash first made films for television. Barbash received international attention for his fourth directorial work, the feature film Beyond the Walls . The film deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within a maximum security prison and was Barbash's first collaboration with his brother Benny Barbash: they both wrote the script for the film, which was nominated in 1985 for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film . From then on, Uri Barbash also worked with his brother on numerous other films.

After the controversial multi-part documentary The Kastner Trial for Channel 1 , which reconstructs the Rudolf Kastner trial against Malkiel Grünwald from 1954, Barbash devoted himself to the subject of the Holocaust for the first time in 2008 and realized the first Israeli-Polish co-production in Spring 1941 . The film is based on Ida Fink's short stories A Conversation and Spring Morning and is dedicated to the Jewish-Canadian cellist Ida Fink, who is returning to Poland after 30 years ; flashbacks show her experiences in 1941, including the occupation of Poland by the National Socialists and the family's escape to a Polish farm. As with The Kastner Trial and Kav 300 , Barbash also worked with screenwriter Motti Lerner on Spring 1941 . Barbash described the film as the fulfillment of a long-cherished dream, so he always wanted to make a film with a Holocaust theme, since the Holocaust plays a dominant role in his life, even if his family was not directly affected. According to Barbash, his directorial work is a revenge for the atrocities of the Holocaust. In an interview he said: “Making films is my way of taking revenge. [...] I don't forgive, and that's why I make my films! ”(“ Making films is my form of revenge. […] I don't forgive, that's why I make films! ”).

In his current work Kapo in Jerusalem , Barbash follows two Auschwitz survivors, the pianist Sarah and the doctor Bruno, who wanted to make a home in Jerusalem during the Israeli War of Independence in 1946. Bruno is confronted with his past and accused of having worked as a sadistic block warden in Auschwitz. For Kapo in Jerusalem , Barbash was inspired by Eliezer Grinbaum's biography, who was Kapo in Auschwitz. After Spring 1941, Barbash made Kapo in Jerusalem as the second of three films that deal with the subject of the Holocaust on the basis of various biographies of contemporary witnesses.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1982: Ot Kain
  • 1982: Gabi Ben Yakar
  • 1984: Beyond the Walls (Me'Ahorei Hasoragim)
  • 1987: Land of Longing (Ha-Holmim)
  • 1989: Ehad Mishelanu
  • 1990: Last Moments
  • 1990: Final Take Off - The last fight in the cockpit (Derech Ha'nesher)
  • 1991: Z'man Emet
  • 1992: Me'Ahorei Hasoragim II
  • 1992: Lelakek Tatut
  • 1994: The Kastner Trial (Mishpat Kastner)
  • 1994: Ipui Koach
  • 1997: Kav 300 (TV series)
  • 2006: Melah Ha'arets
  • 2008: Spring 1941 (Aviv 41)
  • 2014: Kapo in Jerusalem (Kapo Be'Yerushalaim)

Awards

  • 2015: Schoumann Award Honorable Mention, Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, for Kapo in Jerusalem

literature

  • The political films of Uri Barbash . In: Amy Kronish: World cinema: Israel . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996, p. 108.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Nirit Anderman: New Uri Barbash Film Sets a Love Triangle in Holocaust-era Poland . Haaretz.com, October 23, 2008.
  2. ↑ Benni Barbash on croquelinottes.fr
  3. ↑ a b c Aditi Desai, Aliya Abreu: "Being a Jew is a permanent challenge" Uri Barbash ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / iffigoa.org 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. . iffigoa.org, November 29, 2015.
  4. ^ Daniel Ben-Tal: Answering the call of duty . In: The Jerusalem Post , March 6, 2005, p. 24.
  5. ↑ Every traitor his reward. Kastner's List, Eichmann's Business: An Israeli TV Movie and the Nation's Conscience . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 12, 1994, p. 30.
  6. ↑ Merav Yudilovitch: Joseph Fiennes takes on a Jewish identity . ynetnews.com, July 17, 2007.
  7. ↑ Kapo in Jerusalem on yezirah.com
  8. ↑ JJFF 2015 Awards ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jer-cin.org.il 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. . jer-cin.org.il
personal data
SURNAME Barbash, Uri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli film director
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv