Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematographie des Holocaust


Years of Destiny / Shnot Hahachra’a. R: Dunner [IL / US, 1961]

ID

FBW002136      Kurz-Dokumentarfilm

Land / Jahr

Israel / USA, 1961

Originaltitel

Years of Destiny / Shnot Hahachra’a

Andere Titel

Jahre der Entscheidung (deutscher Titel)
Los Anos del destino

Regie

Lasar Dunner

Produktion

Lasar Dunner Production, New York, NY; für Keren Hayessod, Jerusalem

Prod. / Stab

Produzent: Lasar Dunner; Drehbuch: Al Rosenfeld, Lasar Dunner, Marc Siegel (Kommentar); Sprecher: Alexander Scourby (engl. Version), Llopis de Olivares (span. Version); Beratung: Emmy Herrmann

Erwähnung

Theodor Herzl; Alfred Dreyfus (French officer); Eliezer Ben Jehuda (Founder of modern Iwrit); David Ben Gurion (Prime Minister, Israel); Yitzchak Ben Zvi (President, Israel); Arthur Ruppin (WZO, Director); Chaim Weizmann (President, Israel); Edmund Allenby (British officer); Arturo Toscanini (Conductor); Henrietta Szold (Youth Aliya); Harry S. Truman (President, USA)

Länge

27'

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Anmerkungen

1. In vier (dt./engl./franz./span.) Versionen produziert.

Synopsis

Basiert auf Photomaterial. Die Geschichte des Zionismus von Theodor Herzl bis in die frühen Jahre nach der Staatsgründung. Zeigt Herzls Biographie, das alte Palästina, die verschiedenen Alijot (Einwanderungen), den ersten Weltkrieg und die türkische Herrschaft, das Eröffnungskonzert des Philharmonischen Orchesters, die Proklamation des Staates Israel und die „Operation Ali Baba“, die Alija aus dem Irak.

Schlagworte

1910-1919; 1920-1929; 1930-1939; 1940-1949; Alija; Alija Bet; Bricha; Britische Armee; Britische Mandatsregierung; Erster Weltkrieg; Exodus 47 (Schiff); Flüchtlingsschiff; Haganah; Haifa; Holocaust-Überlebender; Israel; Jüdische displaced person; Jugend-Alija; Palästina; Vereinte Nationen; Zweiter Weltkrieg; Zypern

Kopien

- Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Frankfurt am Main: 282 m / 25'42''; 16mm; dt. Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 256 m / 23'20''; 16mm; span. Version
- Bundesarchiv - Filmarchiv, Berlin: 290 m / 26'26''; 16mm; dt. Version
- Israel Film Archive - Jerusalem Cinematheque, Jerusalem: 27'; 16mm; engl. Version
- Israel Film Archive - Jerusalem Cinematheque, Jerusalem; 16mm; engl. Version
- Israel Film Archive - Jerusalem Cinematheque, Jerusalem; 16mm; franz. Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem; 16mm; engl. Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem; 16mm; hebr. Version
- National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA; 16mm; hebr. Version
- Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn; 16mm; dt. Version

Literatur

- Koolik, Murry Wolf: A Content Analysis of Educational Films about Israel. (thesis), New York, NY: NYU, 1971
- Abraham F. Rad Jewish Film Archives (Hg.): Filmography. Catalogue of Jewish Films in Israel. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1972
- N.N.: The Jewish Audio-Visual Review, New York, NY: National Council on Jewish Audio-Visual Materials; American Association for Jewish Education, 1973
- Abraham F. Rad Jewish Film Archives (Hg.): Catalogue of Films. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1976
- N.N.: Jewish Film Directory. London: Flicks Books, 1992

Inhalt (detailliert)

Shotlist (- ft):
- 000 CUs: Israelis, agricultural work and urban Israel
- 040 CREDITS
- 058 Theodor Herzl's coffin arriving and reburied in Jerusalem
- 083 CUs: Herzl
- 095 19th century Vienna
- 112 Paris in the 1890's
- 124 CU: Herzl
- 127 Alfred Dreyfus's (French officer) dishonorable discharge
- 140 French trials
- 154 CU: Dreyfus
- 156 CUs: Herzl
- 160 CU: Cover of "The Jewish State"
- 176 GV: Basle
- 190 First Zionist Congress
- 207 Second Zionist Congress
- 215 Herzl in Palestine
- 220 GVs: Palestine ca. 1905
- 230 Chasidim
- 235 Old City
- 237 Western Wall
- 243 Arab Shepherds
- 247 Barren land
- 250 Early pioneers
- 266 CU: Eliezer Ben Yehuda (Founder of modern Hebrew)
- 269 Map of Palestine
- 277 CU: Cover of "Altneuland"
- 284 CU: Herzl
- 294 Herzl's funeral, 1904
- 302 Second aliya pioneers
- 341 CU: David Ben Gurion (Prime Minister) and Yitzchak Ben Zvi (President)
- 345 Jewish watchman in Arab dress
- 363 Jaffa
- 366 Arthur Ruppin, first director of WZO office in Jaffa
- 368 Pioneers
- 373 Sand dunes and ground-breaking of Tel Aviv, 1909
- 390 Degania
- 394 Settlers working on land
- 400 WWI headline
- 403 Jews deported by Turks
- 407 Chaim Weizmann (President)
- 415 Balfour Declaration
- 421 Edmund Allenby (British officer) entering Jerusalem
- 432 Armistice headline
- 437 British Mandate established
- 441 1920 London Conference
- 449 Third aliya pioneers
- 457 Agricultural work
- 469 Settlements in Jezreel Valley
- 476 Road building
- 480 Industrial plants
- 485 Agricultural work
- 490 Immigrants arriving by ship
- 499 Nazis in Germany
- 511 German refugees
- 524 Work on settlement
- 534 Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra poster
- 536 Arturo Toscanini conducting opening concert, 1936
- 553 Youth Aliya children
- 560 Henrietta Szold (Youth Aliya)
- 564 Youth Aliya children in village
- 580 Arab riots
- 583 Hagana training
- 595 New settlements
- 607 1939 White Paper
- 615 Jews rioting in Palestine
- 621 WWII
- 623 Invasion of Poland in newspaper headline
- 626 Jews fighting in British Army
- 632 Jewish Brigade headquarters
- 635 Headline of German surrender
- 637 Concentration Camp survivors
- 645 Refugees and illegal immigrant ships
- 667 Refugees deported to Cyprus
- 684 Arrivals on beach
- 688 British soldiers
- 691 New settlements in Negev
- 702 Weizmann and Harry S. Truman (President, US)
- 704 UN
- 712 Arabs at UN
- 714 Bomb damage in Jerusalem
- 730 Declaration of Independence
- 745 War of Independence
- 756 Arab troops surrendering
- 766 CU: Palmach members
- 771 Immigrant ships arriving
- 800 Immigrants at work
- 813 Knesset
- 817 More immigrants arriving
- 840 ENDS
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem

Vor- / Nachspann

- 1. YEARS / OF / DESTINY
- 2. Presented by / KEREN HAYESOD / UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL / Story by / AL ROSENFELD / and / LASAR DUNNER / Consultant / EMMY HERRMANN / Narrated by / ALEXANDER SCOURBY / Written by / MARC SIEGEL / Directed and Produced / by / LASAR DUNNER
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- 1. THE END / A / LASAR DUNNER / Production
- 2. The Photos of this film are in the main / from archives of the / Keren Hayesod - United Israel Appeal / Jerusalem, and from the / Zionist Archives, / Jerusalem and New York
- 3. Our appreciation is extended / to the Zionist Archives / for their advise and assistance / and to: / American Jewish / Joint Distribution Committee / American Embassy - New York / French Embassy - New York / General Federation of Jewish Labor / Israel Government / Press Information Office / Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Jewish Agency - Jerusalem / Jewish National Fund - Jerusalem / New York Public Library
Original-Vor/Nachspann (engl. Version), Abschrift lt. Kopie: National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA