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Gdud A'liyah ()
Directed by Joshua Faudem
“Together, Stronger!”
Documentary · 51m
The long lasting Palestinian-Israeli conflict has created appaling phenomenons that have horrified the Israeli society. the "politically conscience-refusals" or those individual soldiers refusing to fight in the occupied territories, are one of those phenomenons. In opposition to them stand a thousand immigrants from the former Soviet Union, ex-military men from the Red Army, who yearn to be recruited into the IDF and fight for Israel, but who are denied the right to serve in the army. Through the stories of Oleg and Alex, immigrants and the battalion's charismatic commanders, the story of the Russkii Battalion is told. It is a story of contrasts between the hardships of the daily struggles they face as new immigrants against the pride and the sense of belonging they find in the battalion. The Russkii Battalion is a film about a militaristic social bubble, in a country that is in constant war.
Crew
- Director
- Joshua Faudem
- Director of Photography
- Valentin Belonogov
- Editor
- Sasha Lutsky
- Producer
- Yoram Globus
Details
- Original title
- גדוד עליה
- Runtime
- 51m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- HE
- Spoken languages
- Hebrew, Russian
- Countries
- Israel