The House

  • Amos Gitaï
  • 1980
  • Israel
  • 52 minutes
  • Arabic; Hebrew
  • DR
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House is the story of a house in West-Jerusalem: abandoned during the 1948 war by its owner, a Palestinian doctor; requisitioned by the Israeli government as “vacant’; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; purchased by a university professor who undertakes its transformation into a patrician villa… The building site is like a theatre in which the former inhabitants, the neighbours, the workers, the builder and the new owner all appear.

  • Production : Israel Broadcasting Authority
  • Editing : Rina Ben Melech
  • Sound : Oded Hornik
  • Photography : Emmanuel Aldema