Uri Zohar has frequently been called the “Godard of Israel.” Adopting methods from the French New Wave of cinema, his film Three Days and a Child portrays the cityscape of Jerusalem, through which mathematics student Eli drifts with his ex-girlfriend’s son.
During the three days Eli is supposed to babysit, he relives painful memories of the love of his life and engages in a dangerous game.
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Old Building, ground level, Auditorium
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
Zohar’s auteuristic films ushered in Israeli’s cinema’s “New Sensibility,” which turned its back on collectivism and focused on individuals.
David Gurfinkel was the camera operator of Three Days and a Child. In this clip, he discusses the 2015 digital restoration of the film, which was sponsored by the Jerusalem Cinemateque and carried out by Realworks Restoration Studios (Hebrew with English subtitles).
Orginal title | Shlosha Yamim Veyeled (Three Days and a Child) |
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Genre | Auteur film |
Directed by | Uri Zohar |
Produced in | Israel |
Languages | Hebrew with English subtitles |
Released | 1967 |
Length | 90 minutes |
Uri Zohar
Uri Zohar, born in 1935 in Tel Aviv, was Israel’s most prominent director in the early 1970s. His films combined Israeli reality with elements of French New Wave filmmaking.
In the 1970s, he changed careers and lifestyles and went from being a secular Jewish enfant terrible filmmaker to an Orthodox rabbi.
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