Photograph
courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Venezia Lido: 72nd Film Festival – Amos Gitai –
Rabin, the Last Day. On the evening of November 4, 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin is shot down at the end of a huge political rally in the center of
Tel-Aviv. His killer apprehended at the scene turns out to be a 25-year-old
Jewish observant. Investigation into this brutal murder reveals a dark and
frightening world that made this tragic deed possible. A subculture of hate
fueled by hysterical rhetoric, paranoia and political intrigue. The extremist
rabbis who condemned Rabin by invoking an obscure Talmudic ruling. The
prominent right wing politicians who joined in a campaign of incitement against
Rabin. The militant Israeli settlers for whom peace meant betrayal. And the
security agents who saw what was coming and failed to prevent it. This tribute
to Nobel Peace Prize winner Yitzhak Rabin on the 20th anniversary of his death
sheds light on an ever-growing crisis of hate in Israeli society today. Amos
Gitai masterfully combines staged re-enactments with actual news footage of the
shooting and its aftermath to create a thought-provoking political thriller.
Staring: Ischac Hiskiya, Pini Mitelman, Michael Warshaviak, Einat
Weizman, Rotem Keinan, Yogev Yefet, Yael Abecassis.
Photograph
courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Amos
Gitai – Rabin, the Last Day
Photograph
by Barry Frydlender – courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Amos
Gitai – Rabin, the Last Day
Director’s Statement. “I was interested in dissecting what led to Rabin’s murder. Twenty years have passed. The prospects of peace have vanished with the 90s dreams of normalcy. But the men that made possible the killing of our prime minister are still around. In fact, some of them are now flirting with power. I am alarmed by the growing existence of a violent Jewish religious underground in the heart of Israeli secular society. This is a disease that could very well destroy the democratic idea that Israel was founded on. In my mind Israel in its origins was a political endeavour, not a religious one, a political conclusion of a long history of suffering by the Jewish people.”
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Amos
Gitai – Rabin, the Last Day
Contessanally
– courageous movie of peace - denounces political and religious and radical
leaders – 8/10
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