What a Soap. As an Arab spy who opened a Restaurant in Tel Aviv, directly opposite the military headquarters. As a high Israeli officer, which it elicits secrets about the upcoming confrontation that will go down as the six-day war in the history books. As a marriage and a bomb in the Bridal bouquet. “The conflict between Israel and the Arab world is a soap Opera, with no end in sight,” says Director Sameh Zoabi half-laughing. And half-seriously.
The soap Opera is definitely a good way to tell his personal story. The movie “Tel Aviv is on Fire” plays in the present. And tells of the production of the eponymous Soap that is loved by Israelis and Palestinians alike. In the center of the story of the Palestinians, Salam, receives an internship on the Set of the soap Opera. Because he lives in Jerusalem, but in Ramallah is rotated, it must happen every day of the Checkpoint. There he meets an Israeli border official who has a keen interest in the progress of the story. It is the favorite series of his wife.
The reality: a screenwriter Salam (Kais Nashif) is from the Israeli officials (Yaniv Biton).
Soon, in the meantime, the writer carried sallam between all fronts device. When watching TV, the shy man is not taken seriously, because his uncle is producing the series and he is labeled as the minion. The officer at the border he has to promise to affect the plot in a way that the Israeli figures look better. His Palestinian family has their claims to the content. And then there’s this woman from his favorite store, the ignored him, but barely. All in all, almost more tangles come together, as if they could be invented in a soap Opera.
The Director is as a Palestinian in Israel
grew up”, It is exactly the Situation in which I found myself,” says Director Sameh Zoabi. The 44-Year-old comes from a Palestinian village close to Nazareth. “As a Palestinian in Israel, you live in extremely isolated. At the University, there is adopted, for example. But you can only compete hard, because all the courses are in Hebrew and all of a sudden all other claims and worldviews raining down.” As an artist he knew only one way to respond to it. “I had to shoot a wild Comedy.”
“Tel Aviv is on Fire”: from 7. March in the cinema.
Yes, “Tel Aviv is on Fire” is funny. But, of course, has a very serious Background. “When I got my first Film “Without Cell Phone”, thought it was a comedian happens of in I, unintentionally, like an accident,” says Sameh Zoabi. He had to prevail in the production of the new film, what was really his intention: “I wanted to turn no Drama with a few funny scenes. But really a Comedy. But one that opens your eyes.”
Clearly this is a balancing act, but the Film crashes never. On the contrary, in small observations, he tells more about the conflict than some of the large treatise. For example, if the border is an officer, to get the best Hummus from Ramallah, so he gives more tips for the soap Opera. This is funny, but also true: “Even the extreme right-wing Israelis who want to expel all Palestinians, a love of our culture,” says Zoabi: “you listen to Arabic music, watch Egyptian soap operas and eat our specialities. This is one of the many absurdities in my home.”
For the daily brutalities are Facebook and Youtube as
this story, however, Is not to be belittling? No, says the Director. What’s on at the Border and in the occupied territories is done, the daily brutalities, could you look at on Facebook and Youtube. He went about to invent a story that way. To Sameh Zoabi had to leave the home. He has studied in New York Film. “At Columbia University, there were people from all over the world, each embodied by a minority. And everyone had a story. The has given me the courage to tell this my way.”
Whether this would work, he did not know. He learned only last autumn, during the world premiere at the Venice film Festival. As the audience laughed loudly and heartily. But he was crying from happiness.
(Sunday newspaper)
Created: 02.03.2019, 18:08 PM
