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By Samir

DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2002

A filmic reflection about the stereotypes of "the Jew" and " the Arab" through one hundred years of film, linked with the biographies of four extraordinary people: Iraqi-Jewish communists

- Year of production
- 2002
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND, GERMANY
- Languages
- ARABIC, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 112 mn
- Director(s)
- Samir
- Writer(s)
- Samir
- Cast
- Sami MICHAEL, Ella SHOHAT, Moshe HOURI, Shimon BALAS, Samir NAQQASH
- ISAN
- 0000-0000-CE3B-0000-N-0000-0000-5
- EIDR
- 10.5240/2666-94A0-ED10-9169-2EF0-9
- Producer(s)
- Gerhard HAAG (Tag/Traum Filmproduktion), Karin KOCH (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG), Samir (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG)
- Synopsis
- A filmic reflection about the stereotypes of “Jew” and “Arab” through onehundred years of film, contrasted with the history of Jewish communists from Iraq. The protagonists are Shimon Ballas, a writer and professor of Arabic studies in Tel Aviv and Paris; the best-selling Israeli author Sami Michael from Haifa; Moshe Houri, a former dealer in real estate; writer Samir Naqqash who only publishes in the Arabic language and Ella Shohat, a Professor of Film and Cultural Studies in New York who has written a standard text on the Israeli film industry.