Based on Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre's best-selling account of the partitioning of Palestine, Elie Chouraqui's (HARRISON'S FLOWERS) formulaic film recounts the tumultuous birth of Israel, beginning with the 1946 bombing of a British command center at Jerusalem's King David Hotel by Zionist extremists and ending with 1948's six-day cease-fire. History is seen through the eyes of three fictional friends — two Jewish, the third Palestinian — who are predictably torn apart by the violence that follows the decision to carve Palestine in two.
New York City, July 22, 1946. As news of the King David Hotel bombing reaches the U.S., Jewish GI Bobby Goldman (...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
96 mins