Forum international pour la Paix
monthly film club of the Alliance Israelite Universelle Israeli-Swiss director Igaal Niddam
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Igaal Niddam was born in Fez, Morocco in 1938, and emigrated to Israel at the age of 10 where he spent his youth in the kibbutz and adolescence. From 1960 to 1963 he worked as a cameraman refer to Tel Aviv. He joined the Swiss Television in 1964 as a cameraman and cinematographer. He collaborates with some fifty television movies, serials and various series (Dr. Sylvester, …). In 1974, he wrote, co-produced and directed his first feature film “The Third cry.” In 1976 he directed his second feature film “We are Arab Jews in Israel” who in 1977 obtained the Grand Prix du Film d’Art and Essay and the Prix de la Presse Francophone Festival (Cannes). It will be some years before realizing his latest feature film and meet a significant international audience. This will recently with “Dan and Aaron.” Two brothers find themselves in Israel after years of separation. Dan, who has lived 25 years in a secular kibbutz, attacked the religious beliefs of his brother Aaron, came to the United States to defend the right of students of the Torah. “ A film tremendously welcomed by audiences and critics.
“The third cry” 1974. With Myriam Mezieres, Jacques Denis, Christine Fersen.95 ‘. Color. VF.
Part of the maintenance staff of a huge bomb shelter near Geneva is suddenly trapped inside the shelter. Men and women of different and contradictory characters who question their situation. Is this an exercise to the test or condition that must last forever, an atomic bomb, which exploded, making them the last survivors of a country? Hard not to see in this enclosed an echo of the widespread fear of a nuclear war then between the USA and the USSR but also, more ironically, the transposition of the director’s life on a kibbutz perceived as a “hell conditioning. “ The film owes much to the presence of clown Jacques Denis. Christine Fersen is remarkable in the role of Eva.
The film won the Grand Prix of French Film Festival in 1974 and the Special Prize of the International Youth Film and Cannes in 1975. He also received the Best Screenplay Prize of International Film Festival of Fiction in Sitges (Spain) in 1975.