Children Of The Sun

70 Minutes, 2007
Genre:
Documentary
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Directed by: Ran Tal
Production:Amir Harel
Language: Hebrew
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‘Children of the Sun’ was the nickname given to the children of the Kibbutzim – the second generation of the Soviet revolution in British Mandatory Palestine. Their parents, who had founded the Kibbutzim, left Europe in the hopes of spearheading a novel society in Palestine where the traditional family model would make way for a collective one; where the individual’s whims and wants would be subject to the greater good of society, and where everyone would live as equals. Ran Tal’s now-classic, brilliant film sets out to paint a portrait of that children’s generation. It approaches the task at hand with a bold cinematic decision: using only amateur home video footage, salvaged from derelict, disintegrating archives and which, coupled with the voiceover narrations of the now grownup ‘Children of the Sun,’ breathes life into the ever-vanishing world of the Kibbutz. The result successfully addresses some highly-intimate, hard-hitting questions, in addition to tackling Israeli society’s most fundamental issues and principles, ultimately crafting a metanarrative of sorts which portrays one of the Zionist movement’s most defining ethoses in the Jewish homeland.

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