In Jerusalem

In Jerusalem
In Jerusalem
Directed by	David Perlov
Produced by	The Israeli Film Service
Starring	Zelda
Narrated by	Yaacov Malkin
Cinematography	Adam Greenberg
Music by	Oedoen Partos, conducted by Gary Bertini
Release date	1963;
Running time	33 minutes
Country	Israel
Language	Hebrew

in Jerusalem (Be-Yerushalayim, Jerusalem) (1963) is a documentary film by David Perlov, This film came to be one of the most important films of Israeli documentary cinema.^[1]

In Jerusalem Considered by many as one of the most poetic films ever produced in Israeli Film, and as a milestone in Israeli documentary cinema, In Jerusalem is composed of 10 engaged observations of the city, before it was united. Uri Klein (Haaretz) wrote: "When I first saw In Jerusalem, in 1963, I was not fully aware yet of the importance of the film itself or of its director, but I knew that I had never seen an Israeli film such as that. I felt that the Israeli cinema was being born right in front of my eyes".. ^[2]

Awards

Venice Festival 1963, bronze medal
'Director of the Year', Van Leer Institute

Footsteps in Jerusalem

in 2013, 50 years after "In Jerusalem", and inspired by Perlov, leading filmmakers from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School tell their story using their own personal perspective. Nine select films were curated with the original In Jerusalem to form a new, inter-generational film about a city that has dramatically changed – politically, demographically, economically and culturally. Directed by: David Perlov, Dan Geva, David Ofek, Nadav Lapid, Benjamin Freidenberg, Moran Ifergan, Yarden Karmin, Amichai Chasson and Elad Schwartz, Boaz Frankel and Yair Agmon, Nayef Hammoud and Yotam Kislev.

References

^ "In Jerusalem: Now the World Looks Back at David Perlov", Haaretz, 8 December 2003
^ Excerpts of Uri Klein's interview with Perlov about In Jerusalem, Haaretz, Sep. 29 1993.

External links

In Jerusalem at IMDb

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[1] "In Jerusalem: Now the World Looks Back at David Perlov", Haaretz, 8 December 2003

[2] Excerpts of Uri Klein's interview with Perlov about In Jerusalem, Haaretz, Sep. 29 1993.

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