BIALIK: KING OF THE JEWS
by Yair Qedar
synopsis
By the age of thirty he'd already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. He spent very few years living in Tel Aviv, but he loved the city dearly. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934. "King of the Jews" is a portrait of the most beloved Jew of his day, Chaim Nachman Bialik. Combining special animation, a voice track by Chaim Topol, rare archival footage, long-forgotten photographs, poems by Bialik performed by Ninet and interviews with the foremost Bialik researchers and fans in Israel and around the world, this film retells the story of the little boy from the shtetl, who became King of the Jews.
international title: | Bialik: King of the Jews |
original title: | Bialik: King of the Jews |
country: | Israel |
year: | 2014 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Yair Qedar |
film run: | 56' |
cast: | Chaim Topol a.k.a. Haym Topol a.k.a. Topol |
cinematography by: | Philippe Bellaïche |
film editing: | Ayala Bengad, Rachel Leah Jones |
producer: | Yair Qedar |