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42:6 (1969)
Length: 90 min., Format: 35mm. color
Producer: Melville Mark
Cinematography: Adam Greenberg
Script: Eric Pace
Actors: Israel Gurion, Lior Yeini, Avraham Ronai, and David
Ben-Gurion himself
Property of The Spielberg
Jewish Film Archive
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David Perlov's
second feature film is a free biography of David Ben-Gurion. It
spans from Ben-Gurion's childhood in his hometown Plonsk in Poland,
where he witnessed the visit of Theodore Herzl treated like Messiah,
goes through the 1948 War of Independence, and finally to Ben-Gurion's
last years, in kibbutz Sdeh Boker, where he appears in person
at the age of 84.
The film received scorching reviews at the time, because of its
daring cinematic approach to a consecrated national figure. Perlov,
for example, painted old black and white archive newsreels with
glittering colors, and was rebuked for it. In a talk on the Army
Radio Station, Perlov countered his critics - "Is a black
and white Ben Gurion more natural than a red, or blue one? And
what about the yellow Jesus of Gaugin, or the green rabbi of Chagall?
Isn't the artificial an essential attribute of all art?"
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