free admission
Wednesday, 03 August 2005 | 18:00
Life According to Agfa
Israel 1992
directed by Assi Dayan
102 min. Hebrew with English subtitles
With Gila Almagor, Irit Frank, Shuli Rand, Avital Dicker and Barak Negbi
Music: Naftali Alter
A night in a small bar in Tel Aviv. The scene is set for an encounter between different people with very contradictory ideas expressing both aggression and hope. Leora takes black-and-white Agfa photos of the guests. The night comes to a brutal end when a group of soldiers arrives.
In Life According to Agfa the director and author Assi Dayan, son of the former foreign and defence minister Moshe Dayan, portrays a divided society.
Film Programme
Accompanying the exhibition The New Hebrews. A Century of Art in Israel is a programme of films in the Kinosaal of the Martin-Gropius-Bau that has been running since Wednesday, 25 May 2005. Israeli films from the 1960s up to the present (2003) provide a wide-ranging review of the history of Israeli cinema. The programme has been organized with the kind support of the Jerusalem Cinematheque.