Kippur

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Studio: Kino Video
Product Type: DVD

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I never knew there was a boring war movie, but Gitai did it
Buy the new book instead
Dreamlike art house war movie
When good intentions end in tragedy
This film is so powerful that you feel it

Kippur
Starring: Juliano Merr , Yoram Hattab , and Uri Ran Klauzner
Director: Amos Gitai
Manufacturer: Kino Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2001-08-28

Customer Reviews:

I never knew there was a boring war movie, but Gitai did it.......2006-06-28

I was looking forward to an interesting movie about the Yom Kippur war, and I mean interesting and not necessarily a thriller with lots of blood. This movie managed to be utterly boring. There is no story line, no climax, you learn nothing about the Yom Kippur war, its context or anything relating to it, and not really anything about the characters either. The shots are endless, especially of the same tracks and the same tanks again and again and the same injured soldiers. The only thing I learned was that a lot of stretchers were used during the war. The content of this movie was just about enough for a short film, especially if you take out the long sex scenes in the beginning and end, which were apparently only there to add time and to maybe wake you up at the end. Somehow Gitai seems to have thought an art movie means an utterly pretentious, boring movie. What an utter disappointment!

Buy the new book instead.......2004-07-29

Although I was already familiar with the work of Amos Gitai, who is probably the most overrated filmmaker in Israel--and one of the most mindlessly left-wing as well--I was still shocked by the treatment the director of this film gives his audience. The Israelis have produced some of the best films about war ever made(e.g., "Avanti Popolo," "Matzgor," "One of Us"), but this is the only Israeli product I've seen that promises to give the viewer a taste of the reality of war and then fails to deliver. Truly great films have been made on extremely low budgets but this isn't one of them. The director's cheap tactic in repeating stills over and over just to extend the time of a movie already too long is inexcusable. And come on, how do you make an anti-war film about those three weeks in October 1973? Anyone hoping to see an exigesis of the political and military thinking involving this two-front war will be bitterly disappointed. They should turn their attention instead to the book "The Yom Kippur War," by Rabinovich which contains a lot of recently declassified material.

Dreamlike art house war movie.......2004-05-19

"Kippur" is not your typical war movie. There are no heroes - just two reservists who get swept up in the backwash of the 1973 Yom Kippur war while looking for their already mobilized and departed unit. It is like one of those nightmares where you know you have to be somewhere to take an exam/go to an interview/go to work, and somehow, you just can't get there.

Kippur tells us almost nothing about the details of the 1973 campaign (which Israel, surprised, came fairly close to losing, since it is really after conveying the sheer randomness and chaos of war from the worm's eye point of view. Unlike our modern Iraq adventures, it is likely the average grunt knew very little about what was happening in the next town or valley, or whether the war was being own or lost. The persepctive was interesting to someone raised with the media-enhanced viewpoint, after the 1967 war, that the Israeli military ran like a Swiss watch. In "Kippur", we learn that like our own army mired in Iraq, these are just weekend soldiers trying to get by.

This is a European-flavoured film, so it is bookended by equally dreamlike sex scenes ("Thin Red Line" tried this in a tamer way) which makes the movies' R-rating well deserved.

When good intentions end in tragedy.......2004-01-25

This is a powerful film. There are no other epithets that describe it. Gitai is able to draw us into teh conflict from the very first shots that capture the desolation of three long refugee camps along a deserted road. The excellent photography of Renato Berta is very effective and matches the director's intent. The realism of war is interpreted in all its crudeness and, at the same time, with desperate humanity. The story leaves no space to memory and focuses on human suffering, the rescue operations and the aid provided to the wounded. The article also poses the question as to what constitutes moral cinema. The answer, is suggested, is the film "Kippur". The realism of the screenplay renders with uncanny clarity the horror and the absurdity of any war. This point of view, Amos Gitai's point of view is valid well beyond the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Gitai does not blame one or the other side, but he takes the audience at the epicenter of the chaos that is a war against men - regardless of colour, nation or creed

This film is so powerful that you feel it.......2003-09-26

Not recommended for those who are used to fast moving action films. Kippur is slow moving and the moments of utter silence create a certain unease at the beginning, but little by little, one is totally taken into the movie. The rythm of the movie gives the viewer the time to feel the horror of war, although no war scenes appear. It pitcures normal people with normal concerns in the midst of war.

Kippur [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Italy ]

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Kippur [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Italy ]
Director: Amos Gitai
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000FGZ0WW

Product Description

Italy released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: Hebrew (Dolby Digital 5.1), Italian (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Subtitles), French (Subtitles), Hebrew (Subtitles), Italian (Subtitles), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYNOPSIS: The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind. Various scenes are awash in the surreal, as Weinraub's head hangs out over a rescue helicopter's open door, watching with tranquil desperation as the earth passes beneath, the overpowering whir of the blades creating a hypnotic state. It is not a traditional blood, guts and glory film. There are no men in battle, only the rescue crew trying to pick up the broken pieces. SPECIAL FEATURES: Trailer(s), Interactive Menu, Filmographies, Documentary, Biographies,

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I never knew there was a boring war movie, but Gitai did it
Buy the new book instead
Dreamlike art house war movie
When good intentions end in tragedy
This film is so powerful that you feel it

Kippur [Region 2]
Starring: Liron Levo , Tomer Russo , Uri Klauzner , Yoram Hattab , and Guy Amir
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I never knew there was a boring war movie, but Gitai did it.......2006-06-28

Buy the new book instead.......2004-07-29

Dreamlike art house war movie.......2004-05-19

This is a European-flavoured film, so it is bookended by equally dreamlike sex scenes ("Thin Red Line" tried this in a tamer way) which makes the movies' R-rating well deserved.

When good intentions end in tragedy.......2004-01-25

This film is so powerful that you feel it.......2003-09-26

Charlie Rose with Henry Kissinger (September 2, 2003)

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Charlie Rose with Henry Kissinger (September 2, 2003)

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Release Date: 2006-08-15

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An interview with Henry Kissinger, former national security advisor and secretary of state, on the current state of the conflict in Iraq and the relationship between the United States and North Korea. Kissinger also shares his new book, Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises.

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The Six 6 Day War and Yom Kippur War

Manufacturer: Questar
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Follow Me: The Story Of The Six Day War 40th Anniversary Edition
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ASIN: B000BW161Y

Product Description

6 Day War 1967 Yom Kippur War 1973 6 Day War: Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq united in antagonism with the goal of wiping Israel off of the map. Not able to remain fully mobilized indefinitely, Israelis had no choice but to take preemptive action and ultimately destroyed the entire Egyptian Air Force. At the end of one of the largest battles in the history of armored warfare, Israel occupied the entire Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, reached the eastern bank of the Suez Canal and re-opened the Straits of Tiran. Yom Kippur War: Egypt and Syria coordinated a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur over the interpretation of Resolution 242 and Israel's agreement to withdraw from all lands taken in 1967. On the Golan Heights, approximately 180 Israeli tanks faced an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian tanks. Along the suez Canal, 80,000 Egyptians attacked fewer than 500 Israeli defenders. At least nine Arab states, including four non-Middle Eastern nations, actively aided the effort. Thrown on the defense during the first few days of fighting, Israel quickly mobilized reserves and pushed back the invaders. While the Arabs were re-supplied by the Soviet Union, the U.S. stepped in to airlift into Israel. In October 1973, the UN passed a resolution proclaiming a cease-fire, while that day Israeli forces isolated the Egyptian Third Army and were in position to destroy it.

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Israel.......2007-01-10

Good and accurate history. Might help people understand Israel's problem of trying to continue to exist. There are also people who need the truth of what is happening and has happened

CONCISE AND INFORMATIVE OVERVIEW OF 2 HISTORIC CONFLICTS.......2005-11-19

OVERVIEW:

This DVD provides a quick, concise and nicely illustrated survey of the "6 Day War" [1967] and the "Yom Kipper War" [1973] via maps, front-line video, and excellent narration. This DVD made me feel, very much, like I was being briefed about these two conflicts, and the issues concerning them in a manner that prepared me to discuss them intelligently. Interviews and speeches made by historic figures abound but, at 35 minutes each, they were over too soon.

SPECIFICALLY: [for example]

At the onset of the Yom Kipper War, we see how a missle screen was put together by the Egyptians, followed by the destruction of a 60 foot barrier on the Suez by water cannons. Tank hunting squads are sent over the Suez, and promptly set up tank traps using remote controlled missles awaiting the Israeli armored response. We see it, but we understand why it happens on a tactical level.
Essentially, that is a sample of how the two wars were depicted and I liked it. Enough focused information is presented, in each of the two segments, to give one a clear enough survey of the conflict to engage in an intelligent "classroom discussion".

ABOUT THE DVD:

Very good transfer of some very old footages from the front line. No features to speak of.

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Manufacturer: Schlessinger Media
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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