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DOCUMENTARY

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Yann Lardeau, Les Films d’Amos Gitai, unpublished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Yann Lardeau, Les Films d’Amos Gitai, unpublished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

AGAV FILMS
6, cour Berard. 75004 Paris – France
+33 (0)1 42 40 48 45
agav@amosgitai.com

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