Kippour

feature film, 2000.

DIRECTED BY: Amos Gitai

Kippour

CAST:
Liron Levo (Weinraub),
Tomer Russo (Ruso),
Uri Klauzner (Klausner),
Yoram Hattab (pilot),
Guy Amir (Gadassi)

SCRIPT:
Amos Gitai,
Marie-Jose Sanselme

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Renato Berta

Synopsis:
This is a war film based on the director’s personal experience as a member of the helicopter rescue team during the war on Yom Kippur in 1973 when Syria and Egypt attacked Sinai and the Golan Heights. The hero of the film is an Israeli student, Weinraub, (the director’s actual last name) who was supposed to join a special military unit at the Golan Heights with his Russian friend shortly after the conflict began. But in the chaos of war, they end up in a medical unit led by Dr. Klausner.

35 mm, color, 117 min

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