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WHAT IF? EHUD BARAK ON WAR AND PEACE

By Ran TAL

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Documentary - Completed 2021

Ehud Barak is one of the most controversial figures in Israeli politics. In this new Ran Tal's film, Barak observes with disillusioned clarity his own history and the history of the State Israel.

Festivals
& Awards

Jerusalem FF 2020
Documentary Competition
Moscow IFF 2021
Documentary Competition
Berlinale - EFM 2021
Market Premiere
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    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ISRAEL
    • Languages
    • HEBREW
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ran TAL
    • Synopsis
    • EHUD BARAK is one of the most controversial figures in Israeli politics. It seems there are two kinds of Israelis: those who venerate him, and those who loathe him. Admired for his analytic abilities, yet criticized for the tremendous military and diplomatic risks he took, such as the attempt to assassinate Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, or the failed effort to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this new Ran Tal's film, Barak observes with disillusioned clarity his own history and the history of the State Israel.

      Can a leader succeed in influencing the world? Or is he a human being like anyone else, only a grain of sand tossed to the waves of history with no ability to affect it? Tolstoy pondered this question in War and Peace.

      78-year-old Ehud Barak is the controversial former prime minister, decorated and criticized commander on the battlefield, and one of the leading figures of the Zionist movement. He is also the initiator of Israel's assassination plan of Yasser Arafat. In this remarkable film, Barak observes with disillusioned clarity his own history and the history of the State Israel. Twenty years after the failure of the 2000 Camp David summit, Barak looks back on his life and analyzes the Israeli reality with a critical eye.

      Respected craft-master filmmaker RAL TAL (THE MUSEUM, THE GARDEN OF EDEN, CHILDREN OF THE SUN), known for his narrative fiction style in his formalist approach to documentary cinema, delivers an outstanding philosophical essay,
      and proposes a deep cinematic reflection on history and decision-making,
      while trying to figure it all out - "What if?"
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