Why Israel. The film with the title not a question mark. He could also "why Israel" hot, because it shows from various Jewish perspectives reasons for Israel as a sovereign state. The question mark is at a different location, on the question of whether there can be a norm in Israel and how it looks. The film goes on a quest for answers. Or better: With cinematic means looking Claude Lanzmann for answers.
Born in 1925, the son of assimilated Jews in Paris, Lanzmann fought in the Resistance against the Germans. After the war he studied philosophy in Tübingen. Before he published as an associate of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre, the philosophical journal » Les Temps Modernes " with, he taught at the Free University of Berlin. The late 40s, he wrote reports of East Germany or the GDR, which he secretly crossed the border. In an interview, Lanzmann: "Back in France, I have a series of 10 articles written, which I sent to Le Monde, without knowing anyone. Three days later they wanted to have replied me that they publish my report entitled Germany behind the Iron Curtain. I liked that well and so I went to Israel with the idea to repeat it. "But the report was never written. Too personal and too intimate were his impressions on the first trip to Israel in 1952 when they were fitted to the objective standard of a story.
In Israel learned Lanzmann a Jewish culture and Jewish world know, covers, which he did not know until then. Twenty years later, Claude Lanzmann undertook a new attempt to approach the many questions. What is Jewish identity? Can there be such a thing as normality in a country like Israel? What is it anyway? This resulted in the film » Why Israel " , who portrays the different and even contradictory voices Jewish Israel. The speakers included ultra-Orthodox as well as living in the kibbutz communists, immigrants from Russia and Morocco, policemen and policewomen as well such as prison inmates, Ashkenazim and Sephardim, that is European and not European Jews. They all express and many more expectations, demands and interests that are not easily standardized.
an example, here are some excerpts presented. A group of black panthers laments the preference of Russian immigrants and immigrants. This political union of Sephardic Jews calls for the equality of all Jewish Staatsbürger_ inside. In another interview, tell the port workers that they are often attacked because of their strikes. Despite the lack of understanding to accept that in the Israeli Society is poor and the rich. For Israel, the Israeli society is for them first. The social divisions, different religious and political beliefs, perceptions of Israel and its Jewish-laid by Lanzmann open and not smoothed. The contradictions continue to exist in this film. Also nice scene depicted in the market, discuss in-born Jews from Germany deal on a French film crew. In German, mind you. A little later, American Jewish tourists to see, marvel at the euphoric range of products in a supermarket and be glad that Jewish Jewish bread and tuna in oil There. A scene that Lanzmann staged to look like he says, to show the wonder, the experiences every Jew and every Jew who / which is the first time to Israel - which is a certain humor.
speaks in the film no voice commentary from the off. Lanzmann, but arranges the statements of the protagonists: First, it puts them together in blocks on the other, he cuts sometimes contradictory opinions against each other. He is often referred to as interviewers in the picture. Of the respondents are mostly the faces to see if they believe their relationship with Israel in words. In close affiliation, difficulties and differences are indicated. It expressed different ideas as to how look normal in Israel and whether it will even be a normality. are unanimous in all but one point: There must be a State of Israel.
The film thus negotiated in the 1970s, questions of Jewish normalcy in Israel. Questions to be answered are neither exhaustive nor unique. Personal stories lined up in historical, religious and political motives.
Not all, however, many interviewees mentioned the Holocaust or experience of anti-Semitism as a reason for the need of the State of Israel.
For Filmmakers Lanzmann's Shoah, which in each case centrally. So begins and ends the film in the memorial Yad Vashem. In this sense, the Lanzmann film not only in response to the question of Jewish identity meant to know, but also as a political response to any questioning of the State of Israel. The following quote illustrates his position: "Then there was the 6-Day War, which was won by Israelis, and after much of the anti-colonialist s left, most of my comrades began to Israel herumzuhacken with this dog common generalization: these are winners, which are Nazis, with the resulting new victim of the Arabs. It was incredible. So I made this film to tell them to tell them that Israel has no nation of murderers, but a nation of refugees, a people of ancient women. Thus, there are two major explanations for this film. On the one hand the past, the unfinished report, on the other hand, these purely political reasons "
why the movie! Therefore, Israel! There is no question mark behind the "why".
(speech demonstration against anti-Semitism, 13.12.09)
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