What if? Ehud Barak on War and Peace (2020) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 12, 2020

Original Title:
מה היה קורה אילו? אהוד ברק על מלחמה ושלום

Alternate Titles:
Ma Haya Kore Elu? Ehud Barak al Milchama VeShalom
אהוד ברק
אהוד ברק על מלחמה ושלום
מה היה קורה אילו? אהוד ברק על מלחמה ושלום

Genres:
Documentary

Production Companies:
Lama Films

Production Countries:
Israel

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 85

Can a leader succeed in influencing the world? Or is he, as any other human being, only a nutshell tossed to the waves of history with no ability to affect it? Tolstoy pondered this question in War and Peace. Ehud Barak, controversial former prime minister and a decorated commander on the battlefield, contemplates it in this film. Twenty years after he was forced to resign from the premiership due to the failure of the 2000 Camp David summit, 78-year-old Barak observes his own history and the history of the State of Israel with disillusioned clarity, while trying to figure it all out - "What if?"

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Animation:
Dovev Alperson

Color Grading:
Yoav Raz

Director:
Ran Tal

Director of Photography:
Giora Bejach

Editor:
Nili Feller

Line Producer:
Matan Gaida
Karin Etedgi

Music:
Frank Ilfman

Producer:
Amir Harel
Ayelet Kait

Researcher:
Hagit Ben Yaakov
Shira Perry

Sound Designer:
Aviv Aldema

Sound Recordist:
Tuli Chen

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