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Controversial Israeli director finds atonement,
reconciliation in "Kippur"

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New York Film Festival. It will be
screened Oct. 29 at the Detroit Film
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Theater at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Kippur is a recounting of Gitai's own
y country is full of con-
tradictions and volcanic _experiences.
As the film opens, Weinraub — the
eruptions," Israeli film
last name of Gitai's father before he
director Amos Gitai
emigrated from Berlin to Palestine in
says. "We fluctuate between extremes.
1935 — walks through deserted Tel
One morning you say peace is at hand
Aviv
streets on Judaism's holiest day as
and all problems will be resolved. The
muffled prayer chants echo
next day, it's the apocalypse."
from behind the walls of
No eruption in Israel's 53-
A scene from the film small synagogues.
year existence did more to
wippur," which
Suddenly, the wail of
change the self-image of its
focuses on Israel's Yom sirens breaks the silence.
people than the Yom
KippurW tzr.
Weinraub jumps into his
Kippur War, the focus of
battered Fiat and, with a
Gitai's latest film.
comrade,
takes
off for the Golan
The lightning triumph of the 1967
Heights to look for his combat unit.
Six-Day War had convinced many
In the chaos of the Syrian surprise
Israelis of their invincibility.
attack, the two young men can't find
The surprise attack by Egypt and
their own outfit. Instead, they link up
Syria on Oct. 6, 1973, "shook the
with
a helicopter rescue unit ferrying
arrogance of our leadership," Gitai
wounded
men and downed pilots
says. "As a people, we became much
from
the
front
and from behind
more aware of the fragility of our exis-
Syrian lines.
tence. We realized that military power
With some of the relentlessness of
is not enough, we must look for a
the D-Day invasion scenes of Steven
political solution."
Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, the
Stich views, and the movies and
camera fixes on the seven-man medical
documentaries which dramatize his
team as it extracts soldiers from burn-
convictions, have made Gitai perhaps
ing tanks and crashed planes, agoniz-
Israel's most controversial filmmaker.
ing over whom to save and whom to
he
continues
the
tradition
In Kippur,
leave behind.
of touching his countrymen's most
On the sixth day of the war —
sensitive nerves.
which fell on Gitai's 23rd birthday —
The film opened last year to excel-
Weinraub's helicopter is shot down by
lent reviews in Los Angeles, Boston
a missile, leaving two men dead and
and New York, where it was the first
Weinraub/Gitai
with a bullet lodged
Israeli film accepted for the prestigious

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