15TH JEWISH MOTIFS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
ROBBERY OF THE HEART
Recommended. The documentary tells the story of the Kristallnacht so vividly the fear and agony are palpable. Another,m contemporary, terrifying news comes after the credits.
ANTHRAX
Recommended. I'm not a great fan of mock found footage but this is based on a true story so unsettling it watches like a thriller.
It took 4 years: 1 year of scriptwriting, 1 year of fund raising and 2 years making. In real life it happened to 800 elite soldiers. The facts presented in the film are true. Some soldiers died from the injection. The mother who advised her son against partaking in the experiment was acted by the real mother of the soldier. The soldiers underwent it out of patriotism. Such experiments are still conducted on Israeli soldiers. The producer himself was in the army in Lebanon and was offered to volunteer. Some army places forbid filming and the film got the "censored" stamp from the Ministry of Defence. The story's been dramatised and made more personal. The beating-up and the doctor's death are fiction. While the cover-up by the army and the American pharmaceutical company conspiracy did take place, the producer is strongly against anti-vaccination movements. In this case, the experiment was conducted after Saddam Hussein had threatened with biological bombs with anthrax, the army deemed the threat real so agreed to the tests of the vaccination. The cover-up lasted till 2 years ago. Then the facts of the case were presented on UDVA TV and the film takes it from there. Peleg has produced 25 documentaries and works of fiction so far. They're trying to sell the film to Netflix or Amazon now.
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