Kippur (2000)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Amos Gitai

Writers:

Amos Gitai (writer)
Marie-Jose Sanselme (writer)

Release Date:

13 September 2000 (France)

Genre:

Drama | War

Tagline:

Bloody, Vivid... Unvarnished.

Plot:

The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights...

Plot Keywords:

Rescue | Helicopter | Syria | Soldier | Sinai

Awards:

2 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Liron Levo	...	Weinraub
Tomer Russo	...	Ruso
Uri Klauzner	...	Klausner (as Uri Ran-Klausner)
Yoram Hattab	...	The Pilot
Guy Amir	...	Gadassi
Juliano Mer	...	The Captain
Ran Kauchinsky	...	Shlomo
Kobi Livne	...	Kobi
Liat Glick	...	Dina (as Liat Glick Levo)
Pini Mittleman	...	Hospital Doctor
Meital Barda
Gidi Gov

Also Known As:

Kippour (France)

Runtime:

Canada:117 min | France:124 min | Argentina:125 min

Country:

Israel | France

Language:

Hebrew

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Brazil:12 | France:U | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Argentina:13

Company:

Agav Hafakot

Trivia:

The film is based on director Amos Gitai's own experience of joining a helicopter rescue crew during the war of Kippur, and his helicopter being shot down by a Syrian missile on his 23rd birthday.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: One of the wounded soldiers is wearing a Casio digital watch. The film is set in 1973 but these watches were not made until the early 1980s.

Misunderstood

Those here who have bashed the film have grossly misunderstood Kippur. Either they look for a blow-blam-bang Holy-wood flick, which it isn't; or for a highly reliable reconstruction (which Save Private Ryan, extolled by some, is only in part: the first scene is almost like-it-really-was, the last scene is blow-blam-bang with Matt Damon and Tom Hanks instead of Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal). Kippur is a highly personal film, in that war is filtered through the very personal point of view of a sophisticated director. Amos Gitai is close to Antonioni; and in directing a war movie he couldn't forget the Lesson of the Master. Hence the minimal dialogue, hence the dilated times, hence the attention to the setting more than the characters. You try to watch Deserto rosso and then Kippur and you'll notice just how much they have in common. Then, if you don't like Antonioni, it's your own business, go for the blow-blam-bang stuff. However, as for action movies, I think Black Hawk Down is better than SPR. I may be wrong...