Cinema
Green Fields
שדות ירוקים
Yitzhak Yeshurun · 1989
Synopsis
Rami Braverman has just finished his basic training. His father Shmulik, who left for the United States after his divorce and remarried Cathy, a left-wing American trained at Berkeley, arrives in Israel for the end-of-training ceremony. With Rami's girlfriend Dana and the grandparents, Meir, who reproaches his son for having left the country, and Dvora, the whole family sets off for the base, located in the occupied territories. After they miss the bus, a settler delivering supplies to a settlement takes them on board; in an Arab village, stones block the road and rain down on the car.
Context
Yeshurun wrote the screenplay; David Tour produced the film for Nachshon Films, and Gadi Danzig signed the cinematography. Shooting took place in Jerusalem, in the Mamilla district before its demolition, and in the Modiin region, then covered with fields. Amit Lior, who plays Rami, also speaks the narration; Shmuel Edelman plays the father, Shmuel Shilo and Lia Dulitzkaya the grandparents, Sharon Hacohen the young Dana. The Book of Israeli Cinema ranks it among the only two films in the country to look the Palestinian uprising in the face, together with a short film by Avraham Heffner.
Who it is for
An hour and a half, in Hebrew. It helps to know that the intifada, the uprising of the Palestinians of the territories, had begun in December 1987.
Prizes and reception
Wolgin Prize for best film and for direction at the Jerusalem festival; Golden Bird at Rio; selection in the Panorama section at Berlin.
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