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INCITEMENT
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Completed - HEBREW - Drama, Thriller - 123 minutes

Log Line

A psychological thriller by acclaimed writer-director Yaron Zilberman (A Late Quartet), Incitement chronicles the year leading to the assassination of Israel’s prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.

Previous markets

  • Toronto 2019 (Premiere)
  • AFM 2019 (Line up)
  • Berlin EFM 2020 (Line up)
  • Pre Cannes Screenings 2021 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2019

Director(s) : Yaron ZILBERMAN
Writer(s) : Ron LESHEM, Yaron ZILBERMAN
Cast : Yehuda NAHARI HALEVI, Amitay Yaish BEN OUSILIO, Anat RAVNIZKY, Yoav LEVI, Dolev OHANA, Raanan PAZ, Sivan MAST, Daniella KERTESZ

Producer(s) : David SILBER, Sharon HAREL-COHEN, Tamar SELA, Yaron ZILBERMAN, Ruth CATS, Moshe EDERY, Ron LESHEM

Synopsis

In September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announces the Oslo Accords, which aim to achieve a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians after decades of violence. Yigal Amir, a law student and a devoted Orthodox Jew, cannot believe that his country’s leader will cede territory that he and many others believe is rightfully — by the word of God — theirs.

As the prospect of a peaceful compromise approaches, Amir turns from a hot-headed political activist to a dangerous extremist. Consumed by anger and delusions of grandeur, he recruits fighters and steals weapons to form an underground militia intent on killing Palestinians. After his longtime girlfriend leaves him, Amir becomes even more isolated, disillusioned, and bitter.

He soon learns of an ancient Jewish law, the Law of the Pursuer, that he believes gives him the right to murder Yitzhak Rabin. Convinced he must stop the signing of the peace treaty in order to fulfil his destiny and bring salvation to his people, Amir’s warped mind sees only one way forward.

Production

Country(ies) : ISRAEL

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Festivals and Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2019 Contemporary World Cinema
American Film Market (AFM) 2019


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