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Kippur

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A first-hand witness to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which troops from Egypt and Syria chose one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar to launch a surprise attack on Israel. This short but bloody conflict is seen through the eyes of a student who has been instructed to join a special military unit on the Golan Heights shortly after the fighting begins, but they are thrown in an emergency medical team.

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Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter May 12, 2001
A patience-trying docudrama almost completely devoid of any trace of narrative structure or even defined characters. Go to Full Review
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times Feb 7, 2001
4.5/5
A classic war film, at once elegiac and immediate, that takes you smack into the chaos of combat yet is marked by a detached perspective. Go to Full Review
A.O. Scott New York Times Feb 7, 2001
3/5
The relentless attention to the sheer awfulness of war, which is the film's great strength, is also something of a shortcoming. Go to Full Review
Gary Wolcott Tri-City Herald Apr 1, 2025
B+
What makes this one of the more unusual foreign films from last year is how writer-director Amos Gitai executes this material. The cinematography is incredible. Go to Full Review
Jason Gorber Film Scouts Jun 21, 2007
A
A powerful film both intimate and epic, Kippur far exceeded my expectations. While I found his last film, Kadosh, to be overly melodramatic and drawn out, the mix of humour and horror in this film work well to create an extremely effective movie. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Aug 12, 2005
3/5
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Ron R Mar 23, 2012 1001 movies to see before you die.
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Cast & Crew

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Amos Gitai

Director

Liron Levo

Weinraub

Tomer Russo

Russo

Uri Klauzner

Klauzner

Yoram Hattab

The Pilot

Ran Kauchinsky

Shlomo

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Kippur

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Movie Info

Synopsis A first-hand witness to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which troops from Egypt and Syria chose one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar to launch a surprise attack on Israel. This short but bloody conflict is seen through the eyes of a student who has been instructed to join a special military unit on the Golan Heights shortly after the fighting begins, but they are thrown in an emergency medical team.
Director
Amos Gitai
Producer
Amos Gitai, Michel Propper, Laurent Truchot
Screenwriter
Amos Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme
Distributor
Kino Pictures
Production Co
Le Studio Canal +, MP Productions, Telad, Agav Hafakot, Arte France Cinema, Tele Plus, R&C Produzioni
Genre
War
Original Language
Hebrew
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 3, 2000, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Aug 28, 2001
Box Office (Gross USA)
$112.3K
Runtime
2h 4m
Sound Mix
Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround
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