Underplayed Gems

Footsteps in Jerusalem (2013)

Footsteps in Jerusalem poster
Directed by
Amichai Chasson, David Ofek, Dan Geva, Nadav Lapid
Genre
documentary film
Country
Israel
Runtime
33 min
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This 1963 documentary shows ten close looks at Jerusalem before it became a unified city. It captures daily life and the atmosphere of the city through careful, meditative scenes.

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What happens

In Jerusalem (Bi-rushalayim, Jerusalem) (1963) is a documentary film by David Perlov. This film came to be one of the most important films of Israeli documentary cinema. Considered by many as one of the most poetic Israeli films, and a milestone in Israeli documentary cinema, In Jerusalem is composed of 10 engaged observations of the city, before it was united. Uri Klein (Haaretz) wrote: "When I first saw In Jerusalem, in 1963, I was not fully aware yet of the importance of the film itself or of its director, but I knew that I had never seen an Israeli film such as that. I felt that the Israeli cinema was being born right in front of my eyes". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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