Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer (1955)

film · also released as: Giv’a 24 Eina Ona

Palestinianscatalogued, not screened by the author
Distributor
ISRAEL MOTION PICTURE STUDIOS
Cast
Edward Mulhare, Arich Lavi, Michael Wagner, Haya Haraeet. SP: Thorold Dickinson, Peter Frye
Production notes
P, D: Dickinson. The first feature made entirely in Israel. Notes from Ella Shohat’s Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989)

Findings (1)

  • Told wholly from the side of Israeli volunteers in 1948, the film keeps its Arab fighters faceless attackers with no case of their own; the one enemy soldier singled out, a captured officer in Egyptian ranks, is revealed to be a former Nazi, fusing the Arab war effort with Nazism.
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