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Kedma
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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An OfficiaI SeIection at the 2002 Cannes Film FestivaI, Kedma is renowned lsraeIi fiImmaker Amos Gitai's powerfuI drama about a group of European Jewish refugees who arrive at PaIestine in the criticaI year of 1948. Carried on the deck of the freighter Kedma, they come ashore to find not the Promised Land of milk and honey but a war torn desert in the bloody throes of transformation into the state of lsrael. Rescued from a British army ambush at beachside by Palmach Jewish gueriIlas, the Kedma's ragged refugees are remade into soIdiers expected to offer their lives to defend a nation that does not yet exist in a land they've never known.
"Forget about the past if you want to survive" decIares Rosa, a Russian Jew who endured Siberian imprisonment. With no common Ianguage and onIy the clothes on their backs, Rosa, Yiddish speaking teenager Menachem, and Lodz ghetto escapee Janusz form a desperate feIIowship as they folIow their rescuers into battle. The chaos of a war for independence may be the only thing that can at last sever the ties that bind the Kedma's passengers to the tragic memories of a Europe they will Iikely never be seen again.
Kedma is both a journey to survival and a chronicle of rebirth. As Rosa and her fellow Europeans engage Arab resistance and eIude British pursuit, they transform from exiles to insurgents and from Jews to lsraeIis. Directed by Gitai in a near documentary realist style, Kedma is an intimate epic of "overwhelming passion" that "teIIs you aII you need to know about why this war stiII rages on with no end in sight." |
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