CENSORED VOICES

SIACH LOCHAMIM - HASLILIM HAGNUZIM

By Mor LOUSHY

ISRAEL CINEMA PROJECT - RABINOVICH FOUNDATION - as FIN

Documentary - Completed 2014

A week after the 1967 ‘Six-Day’ war, a group of young kibbutzinks, led by Amos Oz
and Editor Avraham Shapira, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the
battlefield. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing only a fragment of the conversations to
be published.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance 2015
World Cinema - Competing
Berlinale - EFM 2015
Panorama
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Jewish
    • Countries
    • ISRAEL, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • HEBREW
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mor LOUSHY
    • Writer(s)
    • Daniel SIVAN, Mor LOUSHY
    • Producer(s)
    • Daniel SIVAN, Hilla MEDALIA
    • Synopsis
    • On June 5, 1967, the armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan amass on Israel's borders, threatening annihilation. Six days later, the war ends with Israel’s decisive victory—conquests of Gaza, Sinai, and the West Bank, tripling the tiny country’s size. Streets brim with joy, but behind the euphoria and a proud new national narrative of invincibility are other voices. One week after the war, author Amos Oz audio-records intimate conversations with Israeli soldiers fresh from the battlefield. These provocative tapes, censored until now, are the core of a startling film about the tragic paradox of Zionism and the contradictions that arise when a people seeking freedom turn occupier, when David becomes Goliath.