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Matzor (Hebrew: מצור, translit. Siege) is a 1969 Israeli film directed and co-written by Italian director Gilberto Tofano. It involves the theme of a widowed mother (actress Gila Almagor), her lover (actor Dahn Ben Amotz) and her ex-husband’s friend (actor Yehoram Gaon). It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film was also selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]

Cast

Reception

In 1975, Emanuel Bar-Kedma, film critic at Yedioth Ahronoth, described the film as “the social, psychological study of a war widow within such a study of the general country’s mood throughout the War of Attrition.[3]

Themes

Fiammetta Martegani, an Italian-Israeli anthropologist has identified the film as belonging to the “heroic-nationalist” genre.[3] However, it is the first in the genre to have a female protagonist rather than a heroic male and to focus its attention on themes such as family and intimacy.[3]

According to Maretgani, the film position Israel as first and foremost a Western country and one that shares the ideals of Western individualism.[3] Likewise, Nitzan Ben Shaul, a director and academic has argued that the film “progressively, formally and thematically shifts its initial concept of war as siege and the collective social paradigm as is necessary, to a conception of war as part of an international struggle between east and west. This is correlated with an emerging individualistic western oriented paradidm.”[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ “Festival de Cannes: Matzor”. festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
  2. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  3. ^ a b c d e Martegani, Fiammetta (2017). The Israeli Defence Forces’ Representation in Israeli Cinema: Did David Betray His Soldiers?. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 80–81. ISBN 9781443866965. Retrieved 5 April 2026.