Kedma
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 11, 2004
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Yussef Abu Warda, Moni Moshonov & Juliano Merr | |
Directed by | Amos Gitai | |
Screenwriting by | Amos Gitai & Marie-Jose Sanselme | |
Composition by | David Darling & Manfred Eicher | |
Produced by | Laurent Truchot & Amos Gitai | |
Director of Photography: | Yorgos Arvanitis |
Entertainment Reviews:
The characters prove nothing more than patchy sketches and the drama simply evaporates.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 2/5 --
For all its provocation, Kedma is an often dull, incoherent film, and its characters remain frustratingly sketchy.
New York Times
Mesmerizingly bad filmmaking.
Village Voice
Gitai has made a quirky film about the origins of the state of Israel that provides insights into the source of present day Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Spirituality and Practice
The film's "message"...is treated with such a heavy hand, that it'd almost be manipulative - if it weren't ultimately boring.
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culturevulture.net
Rating: 4/5 --
Apesar do ritmo irregular e dos personagens mal delineados, oferece uma visão complexa e polêmica sobre o longo conflito entre judeus e árabes, o que me leva a recomendá-lo.
Cinema em Cena
Rating: 44/100 --
Seems slow and aimless for half of its running time, but the last stretch is riveting and thought-provoking.
Montreal Film Journal
Product Description:
In May 1948, a group of European Jewish refugees illegally sail to Palestine via the cargo freighter Kedma, arriving only a few days before the departure of British forces and the founding of the nation of Israel. Once ashore they are received by the Palmach, Jewish fighters who help them evade arrest by British troops. Hiding amid the hills, they have a chance to tell their story, and there's even time for some singing. But before they can even change out of their civilian clothes, the weary immigrants are instructed in machine gun use and promptly sent off into combat against a hostile Arab force. Bloody battle and heartrending tragedy ensues, with both sides making mournful predictions for the future of their shared land. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Amos Gitai, KEDMA is an elegiac, beautifully photographed meditation on exile, hope, despair and the trouble-plagued history of the Jewish people. Andre Kashkar, Helen Yaralova, and Yussef Abu Wardu play some of the immigrants, who relate to each other their tales of survival against the Nazis even as they once more face death in defense of their soon to be founded nation.
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- UPC: 738329034825
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