20—Friday, July 24, 1970
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Zim Invests $120 Million to Bring Fleet
Up to Modern Maritime Standards
HAIFA (JTA) — Israel's Zim Lines has invested $120,000,000 to
bring its fleet in line with the most modern maritime practices.
The company, which marked its 25th anniversary last month (it
was founded three years before the state), announced that it has order-
ed 15 new bulk carriers and roll-on-roll-off cargo ships in various
European yards which will enter service between the end of 1970 and
1974.
The orders are the first of a 10-year building program that will
add 33 ships of 1,000,000 deadweight tons to the Zim fleet. Also on
order in Swedish yards are two super-tankers.
Zim presently owns 70 cargo vessels and tankers of 1,100,000 dead-
weight tons. It plans to replace conventional cargo vessels built in the
late 1950s and '60s with roll-on-roll-off and container ships.
The company, which was badly in the red in 1966, has apparently
overcome its financial difficulties.
Record Number of Tourists Expected
This Year, Despite Border Troubles
Screening Crisis at International Festival
By HERBERT G. LEFT
BERLN—George Stevens, direc-
tor of such screen classics as "A
Place in the Sun," "The Diary of
Anne Frank" and "The Greatest
Story Ever Told," after resigning
as president of the jury for the
20th International Film Festival,
told me that the hysteria of the
German press and audience trig-
gered back into his mind events
of World War II and the atrocities
committed by the Nazis just be-
fore he and his fellow soldiers of
the army signal corps entered the
concentration camps of Dachau
and Buchenwald. "Those people
in Berlin frighten me. They will
never learn," he said.
The surface reason for the dis-
sension, insinuations and uproar
of the participants to the Film
Festival was an independent entry
from Germany, "O.K.," an anti-
American quickie made by Mi-
chael Verhoeven in the vicinity
of Munich and in which, as Stevens
puts it, "a bunch of Bavarians
portray G.I.'s" in unison raping a
Vietnamese woman by the con-
spicuous name of Mac, thereby
branding the U.S. as the sole ag-
gressor against world peace.
Stevens says the jury had no
objection to the presentation of
the film, though he personally felt
that the hate-filled, cheaply-made
thriller was no material for a fes-
tival selection. Yet, before he and
his fellow-jurors could make a de-
cision, the Yugoslav member, Du-
san Makavejev, had leaked infor-
mation that the U.S. director was
trying to disqualify the German
entry. A wave of terror against
the members of the jury finally
forced all of them to resign,
thereby leaving the festival com-
mittee no other choice but to can-
cel screenings of those films en-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Figures iards, who prefer a small margin
for the past six weeks indicate that of profit but a large turnover to
the steady annual growth in tourist high profits per tourist with a
traffic from the U.S. to Israel will small turnover.
continue this summer, Deputy
Minister of Tourism Yehuda Shaari
said following his return from a
three-week coast-to-coast tour of
the U.S.
Shaari attended a series of meet-
CHICAGO — The Israel Inter-
ings aimed at boosting the sale of national Tourist Award has been
shares in the Tourist Projects De- presented to United Air Lines for
velopment Co. He said $11,000,000 its work in promoting air travel
of a $20,000,000 issue had already from California to Israel.
been sold.
Yehuda Shaari, deputy minister
The ministry of tourism also an- of tourism for the state of Israel,
nounced that a record number of made the presentation to Robert
tourists are expected to visit Israel E. Johnson, United's senior vice
this year despite the border trou- president of marketing and serv-
bles. Thirty-seven thousand tourists ices, at a recent fund-raising din-
arrived here during the first half ner for Israel held in Los Angeles.
of this year. 14,000 more than in
United and El Al Israel Airlines,
the same period last year.
Israel's national carrier, began a
On his way home from the U.S. joint program last November call-
Shaari paid a visit to Spain to ed "California Visits Israel" to
study the development of tourist promote travel to Israel from the
resorts there. He said Israel could West Coast. Since then, some 5,000
learn a great deal from the Span- Californians have been flown to Digging Season Gets
Israel via New York on the two
Under Way in Israel
carriers.
This is the second time the
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tered in competition that had not
been shown to the press.
If the German newspaper repre-
sentatives and those covering for
the Reich's air waves had shown
only a fraction of the same zeal
when millions of innocent civilians
were murdered by their own coun-
trymen under Hitler as they did
in their "courageous" stand for a
mediocre motion picture, the world
at large would be better and hap-
pier today, 25 years later.
• • •
"Der Fremde Gast" ("The Trav-
eller," also labeled "The Strange
Visitor") is Israel's contribution to
the Berlin Film Festival. It vividly
demonstrates the results of Ger-
man atrocities not only on the
bodies of the victims but also on
the minds of the oppressors them-
selves. We viewed the simple,
three-character dramatization at a
private screening arranged by pro-
ducer Zvi Spielman, who made the
film as a French-Israeli co-venture
with a young Parisian of Hebrew
origin, Moshe Mizrahi, not only
directing but also co-authoring the
screen play from his own story.
'The Strange Visitor" shows
German actor Hans Christian
Blech as a former Gestapo officer
who has tortured members of the
French underground during the oc-
cupation. Changing his name and
personality, he had gone to Israel,
settled in Eilat, married and taken
over a small inn. A stranger, por-
trayed by French actor Claude
Rich, appears in town and, sub-
consciously, reminds him of one
of his victims. The ex-Nazi mur-
ders the visitor to kill his own feel-
ing of guilt, which for many years
had lingered in his inner self.
The premise for the movie is a
theme not unlike one of the immor-
tal tragedies of Greek antiquity.
But the execution of the film is
all too primitive, and from an
artistic viewpoint none too distin-
guished. The pace of the yarn, in
which talented sabra Henia Su-
char-Ziv regrettably has to portray
the Israeli wife as a cheap tramp,
is rather slow and tiresome. Noth-
ing much happens and the point
made by the Israeli-French film
makers remains obscure to those
who did not experience a similar
fate. Yet, the intention alone is
laudable. George Stevens, who is
one of the most ardent Christians
supporting Israel, was quite en-
thusiastic about the film, world-
premiering at the festival, as "one
of the better entries."
• • •
Sweden's "A Baltic Tragedy" re-
veals the fate of a group of Baltic
legionaries from Estonia, Lithu-
ania and Latvia who had volun-
teered for the Nazi Wehrmacht
and were turned over to the Rus-
sians by the Swedes in 1946. Based
on a novel by Per Olov Enquist,
the drama grows from a descrip-
tion of a neutral government's
dilemma into a universary por-
trayal of crime and punishment,
completely dissimilar in design to
Israel's less pretentious "Strange
Visitor."
I liked best a documentary fea-
ture, "The Ben-Gurion Story,"
shown out of competition at the
Berlinale.
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