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OUR STRUGGLE

UNSER KAMPF

By Simon WIELAND

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Jewish - Completed 2016

One Family. Three generations. Nine wars.

Our Struggle portrays a family whose grandparents fled to Israel after being expelled from Vienna and Cracow. For 75 years it has struggled to survive in the world's most hated country – as victims and as aggressors.

Festivals
& Awards

Los Angeles Cine Fest 2017
Int. Filmmaker Festival 2017
TMC London FF 2017
Docs without Borders FF 2017
Miami Independent FF 2017
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    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Jewish, Biography, Documentary
    • Countries
    • AUSTRIA
    • Languages
    • GERMAN, HEBREW, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 92 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Simon WIELAND
    • Producer(s)
    • Simon WIELAND (Simon Wieland Film)
    • Synopsis
    • The film documentary “Our struggle” explores the microcosm of an extended family from Vienna and Cracow, documenting the life and survival of three generations living in Israel, the most hated country in the world. The film shows the fate of family members in the face of nine wars, a permanent state of emergency, and ever new threats. As victims and as aggressors.
      Hardly anyone knows anything about the history and living environments of the generation of people – and their descendants – who only became Israelis because they were driven out of their native countries.
      The viewer “lives with” the family members and in this way gets a glimpse of a country and its people from a perspective that would otherwise remain buried and incomprehensible.
      Through the eyes of the protagonist family we are offered a familiar but surprising, exciting and disparate picture of a country that is so foreign to us and yet so close.
      The family saga, as a mirror of Israeli society, is mainly told from the perspective of the young Israelis, the so-called third generation.
      We follow these women and men, who have in turn started families of their own, as they live their lives in the extraordinary environments of Tel Aviv, and Haifa. And through them we meet the parents and grandparents: the second and first generations.
      Thus the film “Our Struggle” offers new insight into Israel’s society: Suddenly, within the microcosm of three generations of a family, Israeli history, its wars, conflicts, fears and hopes are given a face, brought to life, made concrete and tangible.
      The viewer also becomes aware of how strongly the Holocaust continues to influence our “host” family in particular and Israeli society in general, both consciously and subconsciously.
      In this way, the film seeks to peel away the outer layers of life in Israel until it finally reveals the hidden roots and conflicts of society.
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