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Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

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8.74average critics score, out of 1020253h 26m

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Working from an abundance of footage catalogued in the vaults of Sweden's national television service SVT, archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Concerning Violence) deftly assembles accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists during the Cold War era. Footage of the rise of the Israeli state is 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 have not been shown since the 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 one of the world's longest conflicts.

Directed by:

Göran Hugo Olsson