Film

Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

9.0

3h 26m

2024

Synopsis

Archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson has assembled—from a vast catalogue of footage in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service SVT—accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists. Stories of the beginning of the Israeli state interwoven with the Palestinian struggle for independence. News coverage with Yasser Arafat and interviews with Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban during a visit to Sweden unseen since first broadcast. From the tenth anniversary of Israel’s founding to the First Intifada, perspectives and encounters with statesmen, civilians, revolutionaries, and intellectuals tell the story from myriad angles of an evolving media landscape, revivifying a history of the ongoing conflict.

Director

Göran Olsson

Trailer

DocumentaryHistory

israelpalestinian-israeli conflictpalestine1970spublic televisionhuman rightsarchive footagenewsreel footage1980s1950s1960ssocial & cultural documentary

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Cast & Crew

Yasser Arafat

as Self (archive footage)

David Ben-Gurion

as Self (archive footage)

Abba Eban

as Self (archive footage)

Per-Åke Holmquist

as Self (archive footage)

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