- Kedma (film)
Infobox Film
name = Kedma
caption =
director =Amos Gitai
producer =Marin Karmitz Amos Gitai
writer =Mordechai Goldhecht Amos Gitai
starring =Andrei Kashkar Helena Yaralova Yussuf Abu-Warda Moni Moshonov
music =David Darling Manfred Eicher
cinematography =Giorgos Arvanitis
editing =Kobi Netanel
distributor = Celluloid Dreams
released =May 22 ,2002
runtime = 100 Min.
country = ITA
FRA
ISR
language = Hebrew
Arabic
French
German
Polish
Russian
Yiddish
budget =
gross =
website =
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imdb_id = 0304267"Kedma" is a 2002
Israel i film directed byAmos Gitai and starringAndrei Kashkar andHelena Yaralova .The film is a historical tragedy set during the opening stages of Israel's 1948 War of Independence. The film follows the fate of a group of refugees from the
Holocaust who are illegally brought to Israel by thePalmach . When they arrive, they are chased by British soldiers. Once they escape, they are immediately drafted into the war, and take part in a grueling battle against Arab irregulars. The film centers on two long monologues, one by an Arab paesant who pledges to oppose the Jews forever; and one by an emotionally demolished refugee who laments the seemingly endless suffering of his people. Gitai intended the film to be a more realistic answer to the romanticized depiction of the war in Otto Preminger's "Exodus ". The final shot of "Kedma" is identical to the final shot of Preminger's film.ee also
Other films by Amos Gitai:
*"Kippur "
*"Alila "External links
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* [http://tjctv.com/?p=159 "Kedma's" review from "The Jewish Channel"]
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