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The House

Amos Gitaï
1980 Israel 52 minutes Arabic; Hebrew

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

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