The Arena of Murder

1996 | Documentary | Runtime 90 | Vidéo | Colour

DVD/Video

Amos Gitai: Territories
3 DVD NTSC Zone 1
Facets (USA)
Subtitles: English
Amos Gitai : Territoires
3 DVD PAL Zone 2
Arte Vidéo (France)
Subtitles: German, English, French
Field Diary / Arena of Murder
1 DVD NTSC Zone 1
Facets (USA)
Subtitles: English
Arène du meurtre (L')
1 VHS Secam
K-Films (France)
Subtitles: French

World sales / Distribution

World sales
Agav Films
8, rue Alibert
75010 Paris
France
Tel.: +33 (0)1 42 40 11 00
Fax: +33 (0)1 42 40 48 45
E-mail: agav@amosgitai.com
Web: www.amosgitai.com

France
K-Films
7, rue Commines
75003 Paris
France
Tel.: +33 (0)1 42 74 70 14
Fax: +33 (0)1 42 74 70 24
E-mail: kfilms@noos.fr
Web: www.k-films.fr

Three weeks after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, Amos Gitai investigates the traces of the event. He travels through the country for three months; memories of wars and peace take form through numerous encounters.

"The film borrows from all forms of cinema, investigative documentary, autobiographical film, road movie, rock movie, and is finally satisfied with none. And yet, at the heart of this fragmented approach, this cinematic mausoleum finds its coherence, gradually weaving the threads of a dialogue between the dead man and all those places and people that Gitai convokes in his mental arena."
Laurent Roth, Cahiers du Cinéma, June 1996

Cast Aviv Geffen, Efratia Gitai, Avner Hacohen, Uri Simchoni, Léa Rabin Cinematography Jorge Gurevitch, Ariel Semmel, Jean-Paul Toraille Sound Sam Cohen Editing Oren Medics Music Simon Stockhausen Production Agav Films Producer(s) Ilan Moscovitch, Amos Gitai

Festivals
Venice : Biennale di Venezia / Mostra d'arte cinematografica 1996 - Out-of-competition
Locarno : Festival internazionale del film 1996 - Out-of-competition (Filmmakers of the Present)
Rotterdam International Film Festival 1997