46th IFFI Paid Retrospective Honours to eminent Israeli film maker Amos Gitai here today (21.11.2015), with the screening of his film ‘Rabin, The Last Day’. Speaking on the opening of the Retrospective section, Amos Gitai said that cinema is a strong medium to question the working of the Government. He further added that he has made the movie, more as a citizen than a film maker.
Amos Gitai’s ten films are being screened under this section. Other films include Alia, Berlin-Jerusalem, Devarim, Esther, Golem, the Spirit of the Exile, Kadosh, Lullaby to my Father, Tsili, Yom Yom.
Amos Gitai was born on October 11, 1950 in Haifa. He graduated as an architect from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and acquired a PhD in architecture at Berkeley University in California. He fought in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, during which he was injured. Attracted by directing, he became professional filmmaker in 1980 with House. From that point he created many films, both fiction and documentary that brought him considerable international recognition.
‘Rabin- The last Day is a gripping docu-drama which looks at the prelude and aftermath of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The story of the film is that – On the evening of Saturday November 4, 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is shot down with three bullets by a Jewish law student at the end of a huge political rally in the centre of Tel-Aviv. Twenty years have passed, the prospects of peace have vanished, as have vanished the nineties and their dream of normalcy. For most Israelis, the elimination of Rabin, besides being a blow to democracy, ended any possibility of the Israel- Palestinian peace process progressing.
Courtesy: pib.nic.in
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