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Kedma (film)
by Amos_Gitai
Kedma is a 2002 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai and starring Andrei Kashkar and Helena 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 the Palmach. 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 peasant 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.
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Language: Hebrew
Year of production: 2002
Length: 100 Min.
Country: Italy
Directors:
Amos Gitai
Producers:
Marin Karmitz, Amos Gitai
Actors:
Andrei Kashkar, Helena Yaralova, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Moni Moshonov




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