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Kedma

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  • 1h 40m
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Kedma (2002)
DramaHistoryWar
In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
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  • Director
    • Amos Gitai
  • Writers
    • Amos Gitai
    • Marie-Jose Sanselme
    • Ghassan Kanafani(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Andrei Kashker
    • Helena Yaralova
    • Moni Moshonov
  • Director
    • Amos Gitai
  • Writers
    • Amos Gitai
    • Marie-Jose Sanselme
    • Ghassan Kanafani(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Andrei Kashker
    • Helena Yaralova
    • Moni Moshonov
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    • 12User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
    • 36Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 5 nominations

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    Andrei Kashker
    • Yanush
    • (as Andrei Kashkar)
    Helena Yaralova
    • Rosa
    Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    • Klibanov
    Juliano Mer-Khamis
    Juliano Mer-Khamis
    • Mussa
    • (as Juliano Merr)
    Yussuf Abu-Warda
    Yussuf Abu-Warda
    • Yussuf
    • (as Yussef Abu Varda)
    Menachem Lang
    • Menachem
    Sendi Bar
    Sendi Bar
    • Yardena
    • (as Sandy Bar)
    Tomer Russo
    Tomer Russo
    • Milek
    • (as Tomer Ruso)
    Veronica Nicole
    • Hanka
    Liron Levo
    Liron Levo
    • Gideon
    Roman Hazanowski
    • Roman
    Keren Ben Rafael
    Keren Ben Rafael
    • Aisha
    • (as Keren Ben Raphael)
    Gal Altschuler
    • Yigal
    Sasha Chernichovsky
    • Sasha
    • (as Alexander Tchernicovsky)
    Dalia Shachaf
    • Dalia
    Rawda Suleiman
    • Jaffra
    • (as Rawda Sulieman)
    Igor Mirkukhanof
    • Shimshon
    • (as Igor Mirkurbanov)
    Blair Portnoi
    • British officer
    • Director
      • Amos Gitai
    • Writers
      • Amos Gitai
      • Marie-Jose Sanselme
      • Ghassan Kanafani(uncredited)
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      Yanush: We don't have history, this is the fact. I don't know how to say this in Hebrew. But this is what it is. Our history is the way it is because of the Christians. We didn't want it be like this. We don't want it this way ever. They forced this on us,and we can't help it. Because of this, I am telling you, I'm against this. But I didn't say anything. She didn't exist because of me. You may find it hard to imagine that I am so intensely against this. I'm really disgusted. Think about it, what have we found? Repression, slander, persecution, and sacrifice. Imbuing with hatred, uninteresting. No glory, no advantage. No heroes, no conquerers. Merely a lot of unlucky traces, moan and weep. Always looking for pardon. I ban indoctrinating the Jews stories to our children. Why does it have to be this way? I say to them. From the day we were expelled from our homeland, we became a people without history. The class no longer exists. Some people find it heroic, because we've experienced the suffering. I have nothing to say to this heroism. When a man is despair to no end, anyone can become a hero, whether he wants to or not. Do you understand? I'll talk to you about this kind of heroism, at the gathering this evening. Look, I have quietly experienced all this! Who is to say it could be any better? Look, we endured the suffering but we'll never have enough of it. Because if it's not for this, we will not exist anymore. That is what I wanted to say to you, endure, endure, endure, Under this situation,sorrow is better than joy. We replace action with our suffering. We'd rather expiate with slavery. This is an illusion of reality, of our hope for the future, our beautiful belief, so on and so forth, how dreadful! It's misery that makes us Jews. It proves that we are valiant. Whoever We didn't do anything. This makes sense, in other words, You cannot destroy us, You will never destroy us. There's no power on earth can do that. The power is limited. But our endurance is not! This expounds everything about the exile, affliction, and the Messiah... The amalgamate of these three, causes Jews not to be able to stand up.causes Jews to continuously drip from one people to another people. causes us to be pursued by hatred by hatred... in exile and exile. How they like this. The richer they get, the more valuable Jerusalem becomes... In exile, our pyramid is built with affliction at the bottom, with our Messiah at the top. The code of Judaism resembles the book of the nether world ! Thousands of men, all of them.in the 2000 years became insane. How admirable, what abominable people! Abominably insane. This kind of insanity is intentional. It comes out of the belief of the Messiah. It's simply a made-up story. Without this made-up story. Everything will be different. In order to end this nightmare, they should end in Palestine or elsewhere. It will compel them to think about their future. You need not do the things you need to. The Messiah will come soon, and he will settle everything. Likewise, anything you should do is to be banned. Banned! We should go on in exile in perpetuity, until the Providence feel that he should rescue us? I... I think... Israel is no longer the country of Jews, not now, but at least in the future. Time will tell us. It's all over. Finished.

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    10/10
    a very hearth moving movie
    i must say that i am surprised. i didn't want to see that movie because i assumed that if it was created by Amos gitai i shouldn't expect to enjoy it.i saw kipur before and free zone and i didn't like it. but i must be honest that i actually cried in the movie because it is so sad and its very close to the story of my family. all of my family are Holocaust survivors.my grandmother and her husband and two children came to Israel on a ship.her husband was sent immediately to fight in the front in order to help the besieged Jerusalem and she never heard from him ever since.we finally found his grave 10 years after she past away.so i definitely sympathized with menachem and his girl. that was the realty for many Holocaust survivors that came to Israel and i think that this is what yanosh the main charged is lamenting when he says;*we have no history,the non-Jews did our history for us,not we,we would have never made it the way it was,we couldn't do anything to stop them*.

    the battle scenes in the movie are very realistic and exciting though very tragic .the common fighting of both man and women in the battle field is also very impressing. the way of fighting described in the movie is very typical for the war of independence and the fact that the camera is always on the attacking side and doesn't give a full picture of the battle zone or the view from the enemy angel and actually showing the viewer how a battle go in realty from the fighter point of view meaning allot of noise,yelling and screaming,explosions,confusion. this is very different from traditional war movies that show in different shots one side action and the other side reaction like a soldier is shooting and then in the next picture you see an enemy soldier is getting hit on the other side and the noise and screaming is usual buffered.

    the surprising point of the movie is that the one of the main characters of the movie was in real life an Arab-Jew that was known for its anti-Israeli opinions but in the movie he play a brave Jewish fighter.on top of that the same fighter is talking to Arabs that flee the country and while doing so he repeat the Israeli opinion on the war that say that the Arabs that fled the country escaped it as oppose to the Arab view that claim that they were all physically depopulated by the Jews. gitai is also touching one the war myths about the 35 soldiers that were sent to transport food and medicine to Jerusalem and found and old arab man on the way and spare his life after a long moral argument among them self but after they realist him he called all the Arab villagers and they all came and killed the soldiers and mutiled their bodies.

    i recommend every one to see the movie,though i don't think that movie is better then *exodus*with Paul Newman and *giant shed* with kirk Douglas when it come to describe the war of independence.
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    • Release date
      • May 22, 2002 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Israel
      • Italy
    • Official site
      • Israel Film Fund (Israel)
    • Languages
      • Hebrew
      • Arabic
      • German
      • Polish
      • Russian
      • Yiddish
    • Also known as
      • Кедма
    • Filming locations
      • Hadera, Israel
    • Production companies
      • Agav Hafakot
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • Agav Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $10,067
    • Gross worldwide
      • $299,293
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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