Screening date:07-12-2013 -- 15:45
The Great Book Robbery
The film chronicles cultural destruction, the story of 70,000 looted Palestinian books during the 1948 war by the newly born State of Israel.
About 30,000 of these books were stolen from private homes in mostly affluent Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem; others from cities such as Jaffa, Nazareth and Haifa. Many were either recycled into paper (because they "incited" against the nascent Israeli state) or taken to the National Library, where some 6,000 remain with the letters AP - "Abandoned Property" - labeled on their spines.Country: The Netherlands
Year: 2012
Production: 2911 Foundation & Xela Films Production
Director: Benny Brunner
Editing: Noam Knoller
Cinematography: Eytan Harris, Nadav Hare, Yoram Porath
Music: Daniel Dworsky & Jasmin Klinger
Sound: Amos Zipori
DV – 57'
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biography
Benny Brunner is an Israeli–Dutch filmmaker based in Amsterdam since 1986. He studied cinema at Tel Aviv University. Brunner has written, directed, and produced documentary films internationally since the mid-80s, focusing on Israel and Palestine.
Filmography (Selection)
2008 - State of Suspension
2004 - The Concrete Curtain
1997 - Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948
1995 - The Seventh Million
1990 - A Philosopher for All Seasons
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