The Wooden Gun 1979 HEB SUB ENG DVDRip XviD

Year: 1979
Country: Israel
Director: Ilan Moshenson
Cast: Nadav Brenner, Nissim Eliaz, Michael Kafir, Arik Rosen
IMDB: Link

Language : Hebrew
Subtitles : English





Though inaccurately classified as a children’s film and robbed of a wide commercial release in 1979, the intervening years have been kind to this film, which continues to generate acclaim even in its fourth decade. (A clip from The Wooden Gun opens the second part of Raphaël Nadjari’s ambitious 2009 documentary A History of Israeli Cinema.) The passing of time has in fact only highlighted the significance and force of the movie. Though Moshenson set his drama in 1950, the film was conceived and filmed in the late 1970s. The ‘70s were a time of great social change in Israel. For the generation that fought in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, many of the values and presuppositions of their parents’ generation were brought into question for the first time. By taking his audience back to those first days of statehood, to the time when those conflicting ideologies were still in their infancy, he offers new perspectives on his own era. From our vantage point another thirty years later, the force of those insights have only grown.

Though no doubt the primary theme of the film – the costs of raising children in an atmosphere of militarism and fear – is significant far beyond the social history of one nation, the film also effectively dramatizes a difficult topic unique to those early years of Israel: the particular challenge of welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees from war torn Europe, most of whom were survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. In the film, this is poignantly dramatized in the context of Yoni’s family itself. Yoni’s mother (Judith Sole), who lost her entire family in the war, continues to alienate both her husband (Michael Kafir) and her young son through her apparent obsession with her lost relatives, despite all the best intentions on their parts. Yoni genuinely wishes to know and to understand the reasons behind her suffering, but his every inquiry is deferred (‘When you’re older,’ his mother tells him). But it is a promise we don’t ever expect her to keep. These small scenes are reflections of the larger social context of the culture writ large. In the 1950s in Israel, the Holocaust is literally everywhere and nowhere. Though explicitly part of the new state’s self-understanding, few are speaking about it aloud. Every day brought thousands of new arrivals from the the DP camps of Europe to the port of Haifa, but neither the new arrivals nor the established populations were eager to speak of what the refugees had fled. In fact, it wasn’t for another ten years, with the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the Holocaust was brought out in the open in Israeli society for the first time, breaking the tacit silence of the survivors. (And for decades later, it was still rare for a popular film in Israel to even indirectly take on Holocaust themes. After The Wooden Gun, we’d have to wait until 1988 for Gila Almagor’s Summer of Aviya – which interestingly is also set in the early 50s with another ten-year-old protagonist.) (Mark Clamen)

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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:59:47 +0200
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This report was created by AVInaptic (01-11-2020) on 5-08-2026 16:12:30