Filmscreening with German subtitles

With an introduction by Anika Reichwald

Director: Andres Veiel | Israel/Germany 1994 | Documentary | 90 min | OF (Hebrew, Arab.) with German subtitles | Starring: Madi Smadar Maayan, Khaled Abu Ali, Moni Yosef, David Maayan, Miri Zemach, Naama Mamber, Anat Kirschner

BALAGAN means "productive chaos" in Hebrew. For his first cinema documentary, one of Germany's most famous documentary filmmakers, Andres Veiel, uses an action theatre in Israel in the 1990s to reflect on a society full of contradictions. In the Israeli port city of Akko, a play about the Holocaust is performed at the local theatre centre in the style of action theatre. The actors are descendants of Holocaust survivors, but also Palestinians. By showing the performance but also sketching the personal backgrounds and family stories of his protagonists, Andres Veiel documents the simultaneity of different realities in Israel in the 1990s.

"Veiel's BALAGAN is a cautious film about an explosive subject. It is precisely the seemingly casualness of this film, as well as the lack of pedagogical preparation and cheap political recommendations, that make up its message: That it is possible for people of different religions and backgrounds to live together despite great difficulties." epd film

A film screening accompanying the exhibition "End of Testimony?" in cooperation with TaS-Kino Feldkirch

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Source: Jewish Musuem Hohenems