1997
120' – Super-8, Video – Color – Israel, France
Kippur War Memories




In 1973, during the Kippur War, an Israeli helicopter with a first-aid crew was shot down over the Golan Heights. There were seven men aboard, including Amos Gitai. Twenty years later, he meets up with the other crew members and returns to the location of the accident. It is a journey of remembering a trauma and finding the scars it has left on the survivors.
Each protagonist of the story has a different memory of the accident. So much so that every memory, every reconstruction of the accident testifies at the same time to its loss, its dispersal into lived experience, its disappearance in the very movement of recollection, into the fissures of memory, in order to survive.
Yann Lardeau, Les Films d’Amos Gitai, unpublished
FESTIVAL
• Biennale di Venezia/Mostra d’arte cinematografica 1997 – UNESCO prize
CREDITS
Cast Avner Hacohen, Zaki Zuriel, Uri Simchoni, Uzi Cantoni, Amos Gitai, Efratia Gitai, Ben Gitai, Keren Gitai
Cinematography Emanuel Aldema, Ofer Cohen, Assi Rosek
Editing Oren Medics
Music Simon Stockhausen
Production Agav Films, Intereurop, La Sept/Arte, CNC (France), TV1 (Israel)
Producer Laurent Truchot
In 1973, during the Kippur War, an Israeli helicopter with a first-aid crew was shot down over the Golan Heights. There were seven men aboard, including Amos Gitai. Twenty years later, he meets up with the other crew members and returns to the location of the accident. It is a journey of remembering a trauma and finding the scars it has left on the survivors.
Each protagonist of the story has a different memory of the accident. So much so that every memory, every reconstruction of the accident testifies at the same time to its loss, its dispersal into lived experience, its disappearance in the very movement of recollection, into the fissures of memory, in order to survive.
Yann Lardeau, Les Films d’Amos Gitai, unpublished
FESTIVAL
• Biennale di Venezia/Mostra d’arte cinematografica 1997 – UNESCO prize
CREDITS
Cast Avner Hacohen, Zaki Zuriel, Uri Simchoni, Uzi Cantoni, Amos Gitai, Efratia Gitai, Ben Gitai, Keren Gitai
Cinematography Emanuel Aldema, Ofer Cohen, Assi Rosek
Editing Oren Medics
Music Simon Stockhausen
Production Agav Films, Intereurop, La Sept/Arte, CNC (France), TV1 (Israel)
Producer Laurent Truchot
SALES / DISTRIBUTION
AGAV FILMS
6, cour Berard. 75004 Paris – France
+33 (0)1 42 40 48 45
agav@amosgitai.com
SALES / DISTRIBUTION
AGAV FILMS
6, cour Berard. 75004 Paris – France
+33 (0)1 42 40 48 45
agav@amosgitai.com
