After the end of World War II, large numbers of Jewish survivors flocked to Palestine, the promised land of God, to establish the world's first Jewish state, which was naturally met with the resentment of the Arabs living on Palestinian land and their allies. Although the United Nations delineated the establishment of a controlled area for both sides, the Jewish settlers and the Arab nomadic tribes fought over territorial disputes, and at first both sides were relatively weak militarily, relying on smuggled World War II weapons and hired technical officers, but under the so-called mediation and support of the United States and the Soviet Union, the Jewish army finally won the victory and established their own country, Israel. The author will introduce a few drama films with related backgrounds (excluding documentaries).
1. The faithful city (1952)
USA, Directed by Joseph Lighters
This American film, filmed after the establishment of the State of Israel, has a strong cast but a relatively simple plot. After Israel's independence, Smith, a volunteer from the state of New York, USA, went to an orphan camp in Israel to take care of the orphans of the Independence War, he originally thought that these were just ordinary orphans, but later found that they had become extremely mature and strong, and firmly believed that they could do whatever it took to survive. Smith later became involved in a small trench skirmish with the Arabs, which earned him the respect of the children. The film was protested by Palestinians for its apparent bias towards the Jewish perspective.
Hill 24 doesn't answer (1955)
Israel, directed by Solod Dickinson
As Israel's own war of independence film, the film will focus on Jewish soldiers from all over the world, the plot is mainly composed of three relatively independent story lines, interspersed with memories to explain their respective purposes for the war, they are some Jews from the United States, some are Jewish survivors in the Nazi concentration camps of World War II, and some are Jewish settlers born and raised in Palestine, although their origins and experiences are different, their purposes are the same. It was to create an independent Jewish state. In the end, in order to fight for a position a few hours before the armistice, they were all killed.
3. The Land of Peace (ard el salam, 1957)
Egypt, Director: Kamal Sheikh
Although the films in Arab countries have relatively little information on the Internet, I believe that many of the older generation of domestic audiences have seen this film, as early as 1957, this film was released as a Sino-Egyptian film and television exchange project, and a translated version was released in China. Naturally, the film looks at the Middle East war from the perspective of the Arab countries: due to the bombing of Israeli aircraft, the Egyptians were forced to form a volunteer army, to fight guerrilla warfare in Israeli-controlled Arab villages, and to destroy israeli airfields. Although the screenplay is adapted from Therami Halim's novel, it also reflects the fact that the Israeli army began to gradually occupy the Arab settlements during the war.
4. Exodus (exodus, 1960)
USA, Directed by: Otto Preminger
Arguably Hollywood's most successful propaganda film for Jewish statehood, the film tells the story of the Zionist organization's smuggling of six hundred Jews who survived nazi concentration camps to the Middle East, and took them through the British blockade to go ashore into war with the Arabs, and the title exodus compares this action to the legend that Moses, the ancestor of the Jews, returned to Canaan in the Promised Land with his people thousands of years ago. The screenplay of the film is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Leon Iris, and the whole film is quite epic, imposing, and full of intestines, reflecting the powerful level of speech in the Hollywood filmmaking industry.
5. The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood (cast a giant shadow, 1966)
USA, Directed by: Melwell Chavelson
Compared with "Exodus", the tendency of this film, which is also a Hollywood masterpiece, is self-evident, which is one of the important reasons why the well-made film has not become a classic masterpiece. The film tells the story of During the war, Jewish American Captain Miki came to Palestine to help local Jewish settlers form an army against the Arab allied attack. Interestingly, in the tense battle life, Miki, who already has a wife, actually falls in love with the Jewish women who are preparing for the war, with this kind of American style of the plot, and its three views can be imagined. The director even moved out of the Nazi concentration camp as a memory kill, which is called I am weak and I am justified?
6. Himmo melech yerushalaim (1987)
Israel, directed by Amos Gerthman
Based on the best-selling novel by Joram Kanuk, the film shows the harm of this war to ordinary people from a side perspective. The film features a beautiful Jewish nurse who, during the Arab siege of Jerusalem in 1948, spends time caring for the wounded in a temporary hospital converted from an ancient monastery in the rear, and falls in love with a mysterious soldier, Shimo, who is badly wounded, physically handicapped, and unable to speak or move. As a literary drama film, the film uses a large number of symbolic but elusive lens language to show how the two protagonists can cross the language and cultural barriers to communicate spiritually without direct communication.
7. Kedma (2002)
Israel, Director: Amos Gite
Adapted from Heim Hazaz's novel of the same name, the screenplay tells the story of a group of exhausted, hungry, and hopeful Jewish stowaways who, in the first hours of their arrival in Palestine, seven days before the establishment of the State of Israel, were forced to join the local Jewish underground army in the face of British resistance. Without being restored by the native Arabs, the violent conflict between the two sides quickly turned into war. The film is small and large, which is a more realistic reflection of the chaotic situation in Palestine before the war, but because the director spent too much ink on describing the situation of various parties, the overall audiovisual sense of the film was poor.
8 The Little Traitor (2007)
USA, Director: Lynn Rose
Viewers can relax a bit compared to the rest of the series, which is based on amos Oz's novel, which has little to do with the war in itself, and tells the story of a Jewish settled child from Poland who went out during the curfew and was caught by an English sergeant during the British Mandate the year before the war broke out. The child's mind was full of things indoctrinated by the Zionist organization, to bomb the British arsenal and the like, of course, he not only did not blow up but became friends with the sergeant. The film shows a simple and unpretentious childhood friendship in a complex political context.
9. Tubianski (2014)
Israel, Director: Ricky Sherakh Nisimov
The film is said to be based on a true story, telling the story of Israeli Captain Tobiansky and his online British manager Michael Bryant who were captured by the Israeli militia for providing intelligence to the British, Bryant was released after being contacted by the British army because he was a British elite, and Tobiansky was quickly executed by militia intelligence officers. Tobianski's cup is not unique in Israeli history, and many Israelis have been wrongly executed by Israeli militias in chaotic situations, which is an unavoidable phenomenon in the process of the Israeli army's transition from a disorganized militia alliance to a regular army.
10. G'vurot (2018)
Israel, Director: Joav Araz
The film is said to be based on a true story, telling a story of a kibbutz area at the foot of the Golan Heights in the Jordan Valley region of northeastern Israel during the First War, telling the story of a young boy who grows into a qualified soldier in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict and under the care of a nurse sister. During the war, Israeli militias in the Kibbutz area had to withdraw from the area because they were outnumbered, and members of the local militia families after the war were called deserters and cowards by Israelis for generations, and the film was intended to convey to the audience that they had to retreat because they ran out of ammunition to avoid falling into a desperate situation.