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Catalog  New Release Displaced: The Bad Boys of Exodus |
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Displaced: The Bad Boys of Exodus
Israel/France , 2008 | Documentary, 88 min, |
Director:
Yael Kipper Zaretzky
Producers: Yael KIPPER & Ronen ZARETSKY
Co-produced with: Patrick Jucaud, Jonathon Broda, Françoise Lazard
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| Synopsis |
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On 11 July 1947, the EXODUS 1947, a worn out boat sold as scrap, sailed from a little port in the South of France with 4,515 `Displaced Jewish Refugees` on board including 655 children. A few days later outside of territorial waters, attempting to set an example, the British decided to ram the ship as it was approaching the coast of Palestine, and amid worldwide public outrage, all the refugees were sent back to the camps in Germany where they had been parked since the end of World War II.
60 years after the fact, two award-winning Israeli filmmakers have decided to revisit the tragic odyssey of the EXODUS 1947 through the eyes and recollections of Ike Ahranovitch, the captain of the boat who at 84 looks like a character out of `Prizzi`s Honor,` and Mordechai Rosman, the leader of the refugees, who lives alone, penniless, in an half-abandoned kibbutz.
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DISPLACED, The Bad Boys of the Exodus is the filmed account of a formidable intimacy, carefully built, between these two solitary “heroes” who played a significant role in the creation of the State of Israel.
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Awards and Festivals |
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Festivals:
Mediteraneen Documentary Film Festival, Greece 2009
Thessaliniki Doc Market 2009
Fipatel Market, Biaritz 2009
Warsaw Jewish Motifs FF 2008
Docs For Sale, IDFA 2008
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More Credits |
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| Production Company: Ideas for Films |
| Camera: Oded Kedmi |
| Editor: Hadara Oren |
| Subtitles: English, French |
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"The best documentary film that I have seen in recent years"
-Yossi Sarid, former Israeli minister of Education
"The film brought me back to Zionism.
Watching it is an unforgettable experience"
-Gidon Levi, "Haaretz" daily newspaper
"One of the most beautiful and important documentary films made in Israel. The film expreses with power and sensitivity a paintful time, and so much more. It also speaks about growing old and of love – the love of man"
-Ziva Pasternak, editor of Claude Lanzman`s "Shoah"
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