Palestine 36

Palestine 36
8.0

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Directed by: Annemarie Jacir

Overview

In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule and Zionist immigration from Europe accelerates toward the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, Yusuf moves between Jerusalem and his rural home amid escalating unrest and a decisive moment for the British Empire.

Reviews (2)

  • CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)

    With the British Empire trying to reconcile it’s own Palestinian agenda with those of the indigenous cotton farmers and a burgeoning, homeless, Jewish population arriving with expectations of their own homeland, this film follows events through the eyes of “Yusuf” (Karim Daoud Anaya) as he finds him...

  • Puffypoofy (Rated: 1)

    By Oren Kessler, author of the book 'Palestine 1936'>

    I have a number of quarrels with this film but I’ve limited myself to three of its most egregious failings:

    The utter distortion of how Jews acquired land (whatever land they owned was paid for – not “transferred” over by perfidious B...

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