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IDFA 1991

Biglal hamilhama hahe

Because of that War
Orna Ben-Dor Niv
Israel
1988
93 min
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A few years ago a new rock band swept the youth off its feet, creating a new wave in Israeli rock. Benzin's soloist was Yehuda Poliker, a warm powerful figure. The man who discovered Poliker and his band was Ya'acov Gilad. Even after Benzin broke up, Gilad and Poliker continued to work together - writing, composing and producing records and performances.
Poliker is of greek origins, from a simple, warm family from a small town. Gilad, from the big city, absorbed culture from early childhood from his mother, the writer and poet, Halina. Halina was ten years old when the Germans conquered Warsaw. As a little child she went through the horrors of the Holocaust. She was sent to the gas chambers, but was saved at the last moment. She lost everybody at the concentration camps. Yehuda's father, Jaco, was sent from Saloniki to an extermination camp. His pregnant wife and two year old son were torn from him and murdered. Both Jaco and Halina came to Israel after the war and built new families.
Yehuda and Ya'acov grew up with their parents memories. They expressed the horrors in their music. In the film Orna Ben-Dor Niv portrays the two families haunted by the memories that are passed on the second generation, their sons.
The film includes songs from Poliker and Gilad's new album .

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World Sales
    Shani Films
    Shani Films