Souvenirim . Souvenirs
Verzio FF submission After completing his film studies, 36-year-old Israeli filmmaker Shahar Cohen was unemployed for quite some time, so his 82-year-old father suggested that he make a film about his experiences in World War II. Shahar reluctantly agreed to attend a meeting of veterans of the Jewis...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Danish English Hebrew |
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Sirocco Productions Ltd
2006
Israel |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:79c97026-8b58-4d23-940c-c13460db82d2 |
| Summary: | Verzio FF submission
After completing his film studies, 36-year-old Israeli filmmaker Shahar Cohen was unemployed for quite some time, so his 82-year-old father suggested that he make a film about his experiences in World War II. Shahar reluctantly agreed to attend a meeting of veterans of the Jewish Brigade, where old men describe their training in Libya, their battles in the Italian countryside and their post-war stay in the Netherlands. Only when Cohen heard them bragging about the "souvenirs" they left with their Dutch sweethearts - in the form of babies - did he become motivated to make a film on the subject. Father and son retrace history by car, from Israel to Italy and the Netherlands. The result is an entertaining - and touching - road movie interspersed with archive footage. While the younger Cohen's initial interest was to search for potential half-brothers and sisters, the journey eventually provides him with much more, as he gets to know the hero of his childhood and the fault-finder from more recent years a little better. |
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| Published: | 2006 |