Image of Victory

[Available July 15 on Netflix.] While ambitious Egyptian journalist and filmmaker Mohamed Hassanein Heikal (Amir Khoury) tries to make a realistic documentary about the ongoing conflict between the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli kibbutz settlers who were living among the Palestinians, his political bosses were not satisfied with anything except one-sided, pro-Arab propaganda leading up to the infamous Kibbutz Nitzanim raid on June 7, 1948, in which overwhelming numbers of Egyptian army members (Ala Dakka, et al.) attack out-numbered and out-gunned Jewish defenders (Eliana Tidhar, Tom Avni, Meshi Kleinstein, Netta Roth, Nir Knaan, Itamar Zohar, Joy Rieger, Elisha Banai, et al.) in Avi Nesher's captivating, factually based, well-acted, convoluted, moving, violent, 128-minute, 2021 war film, filmmaker Mohamed Hassanein Heikal ends up lamenting his naiveté that contributed to the thousands of lives lost on both sides, which unfortunately continues to the present.
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