Sunday, June 14, 2009

Al Nakba:
The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948


http://vimeo.com/3714871

(58 min. documentary, Israel-Germany-The Netherlands, 1997).

Arguably the first film that seriously tackles the historic events that lead to the creation of 750.000 Palestinian refugees at the end of the first Israeli-Arab war of 1948.

Based on historian Benny Morris' book
"The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947-49"
.



Produced and directed for ARTE by Benny Brunner & Alexandra Jansse.
Photography: Ram Lital.
Editor: Joseph Rochlitz.
Original music composed & performed by: Elizabeth & Ilya Magnes.

Broadcast: Europe.
Screened at the cinematheques of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in March-April 1998.



Click here:
http://vimeo.com/3714871



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