November 30 - December 10, 2000
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Israel, 2000, 35mm, 123 minutes
Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Amos Gitai

This powerful film, directed by Amos Gitai (Kadosh, WJFF 1999) is a searing, autobiographical chronicle of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. When war breaks out, two friends, Weintraub and Ruso, head quickly for the Golan Heights. In the din of the battlefield, both men are unable to find their unit. Instead, they meet up with an army doctor, Klauzner, and form a rescue team that will make repeated helicopter trips into the combat zone in a desperate effort to evacuate the dead and wounded. As their initial excitement and enthusiasm gives way to weariness and dread, the cohesiveness of the unit becomes the men's only emotional rock amidst a sea of war-charred chaos. As Variety writer David Stratton notes, "early scenes in no way prepare the viewer for the extraordinary realism of the battle front material, which is stunningly staged by Gitai and his team."

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