Israel-Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Genre
Cinema • Documentary

Duration
3:26

Additional information
Original version, English subtitles

Television broadcasting debuted in Sweden in 1957. And Swedish public broadcaster SVT began covering Israel and Palestine almost from day one. In ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989, filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975) masterfully weaves together some of this footage, telling the story of the rise of the Israeli state and the Palestinian struggle for self-determination - as seen by Swedish media.

ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 features interviews with key political and military figures, and highlights historic events like the Six Day War, the 1972 Munich Olympic attack, the first Intifada, and the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. But the film also shares more intimate, rarely seen stories. We meet Palestinian resistance fighters training in the desert, a Bedouin Israeli with torn allegiances, idealistic Swedish peacekeepers, and West Bank journalists trying to put out their paper under strict censorship.

Director : Gorän Hugo Olsson
Country : Suède, Danemark, Finlande
Year : 2024
Distributor : Icarus Films
Format : DCP

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