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Bookmark this pageO Jerusalem (2006)
Director: Elie Chouraqui
Movie review
From Time Out New York
This earnest adaptation of a novel by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre tells the story of two New Yorkers, one a Jew and the other an Arab, who end up fighting on opposite sides in the conflict that followed the 1947 partition of Palestine. Its heart firmly in the right place, O Jerusalem proves an uneasy mix of history and fiction, with major characters rubbing elbows with the likes of David Ben-Gurion (Ian Holm!) and King Abdullah. Indeed, the movie’s failure to reduce the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into simplistic personal drama may be its most authentic aspect.Author: Joshua Land
Time Out New York Issue 629: October 18-24, 2007
Cast & crew
Director: Elie Chouraqui
Cast: JJ Field, Saïd Taghmaoui, Maria Papas, Patrick Bruel, Ian Holm, Tovah Feldshuh full cast
Duration: 103 mins
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