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AL NAKBA: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948

By Benny Brunner

In Documentary & Cinéma Vérité

Netherlands

58 MIN

 

DIR Benny Brunner & Alexandra Jansse

Synopsis

AL NAKBA: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 (documentary, Israel-Germany-The Netherlands, 1997). Arguably the first film that seriously tackles the historic events that lead to the creation of 750.000 Palestinian refugees at the end of the first Israeli-Arab war of 1948. Based on historian Benny Morris’ book “The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947-49”.

Produced and directed for ARTE by Benny Brunner & Alexandra Jansse.
Editor: Joseph Rochlitz.
Original music composed & performed by: Elizabeth & Ilya Magnes.

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