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THE TWO HORSES OF GENGHIS KHAN
EYES WIDE OPEN (EINAYM PKUHOT)
DAS LIED VON DEN ZWEI PFERDEN Dette er ikke den norske skifilmen, men derimot en film som omhandler kjærlighet mellom menn i et jødisk ortodoks samfunn. Aaron er en respektert mann i nabolaget, han driver en slaktebutikk i Jerusalem, er gift med Rivka og far til fire barn.
THE TWO HORSES OF GENGHIS KHAN forteller historien til en ung kvinne, Urna. Urnas bestemor ble tvunget til å ødelegge hennes en gang elskede fiolin under den kinesiske kulturrevolusjonen. Den gamle mongolske sangen, “The Two Horses of Genghis Khan”, var inngravert på fiolinens hals. Fiolinens nakke og hode er nå det eneste som står igjen .
Han trenger en assistent til butikken og Ezira, en vakker ung Yeshiva-student, dukker opp i rett øyeblikk. Aaron blir hans patron, introduserer ham for familien og innlosjerer Ezira i butikkens bakrom. En reise til et avsidesliggende Mikve (sted for religiøst baderitual) blir et vendepunkt i forholdet, og for Aaron er det ikke lenger noen vei tilbake... ISRAEL/GERMANY/ FRANCE 2009
cast: Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell
director: Haim Tabakman
running time: 1h 30m
screenplay: Merav Doster
sales: Arthaus
cinematography: Axel Schneppat
regissøren: EYES WIDE OPEN er Haim Tabakmans første spillefilm. Tabakman som er født i 1975 har studert film ved universitetet i Tel Aviv.
the director: EYES WIDE OPEN is the director Haum Tabakmans first full length film. Tabakman is born in 1975 and has studied film at the University of Tel Aviv.
FILMOGRAPHY (utvalg/selection): 2003 FREE LOADERS (SHORT) 2004 THE POET’S HOME (SHORT)
Gjennom et skjørt og poetisk billedspråk får vi innblikk i livet i et tradisjonsbundet jødisk nabolag. Filmen ble vist i programmet Un Certain Regard under Cannes-festivalen 2009. This is certainly not the Norwegian film about free skiing, but a film about love between men in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem. Aaron is a respectable butcher in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox community, is married to Rivka and father to four children. Aaron is looking for assistance in his business when a handsome young Yeshiva student Ezira shows up in his shop. Aaron decides to be Ezira’s patron and invites him to meals in his home and houses Ezira in the shop’s back room. When they go together to a remote “Mikve” (a sacred ritual bath), an intimate moment occurs between them, and for Aaron there is no returning after this point. Through a tender and poetic visual language we get a rare insight into the life in an orthodox Jewish community. Eyes Wide Open was screened in the Un Certain Regard programme during the 2009 Cannes festival. NB: Norwegian subtitles.
Drevet av et løfte hun har gitt til sin avdøde bestemor, legger Urna ut på en reise gjennom Mongolia for å få fiolinen reparert, og for å finne sangens manglende vers. GERMANY 2009 director: Byambasuren Davaa screenplay: Byambasuren Davaa cinematography: Martijn van Broekhuizen
cast: Urna Chahar-Tugchi, Hicheengui Sambuu, Chimed Dolgor running time: 1h 31m sales: Atrix Films
THE TWO HORSES OF GENGHIS KHAN tells the story of a young woman, Urna. Urna’s grandmother was forced to destroy her once loved violin in the tumult of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The ancient song of the Mongols, “The Two Horses of Genghis Khan”, was engraved on the violin’s neck. Only the violin’s neck and head survived the cultural storm. Urna, driven by a promise to her deceased grandmother, journeys throughout Mongolia to have the violin rebuilt, and to locate the song’s missing verses.
regissøren: Byambasuren Daava ble født i 1971 i Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Fra 1989 til 1994 arbeidet hun som foredragsholder og assisterende direktør for Mongolia’s Public TV. Fra 1995 til 1998 studerte hun på Filmakademiet i Ulaanbaatar, og videreutdannet seg senere ved Münchens University of Television and Film i dokumentar avdelingen. the director: Byambasuren Davaa was born in 1971 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. From 1989 to 1994 she worked as a speaker and assistant director for Mongolia’s Public TV. From 1995 to 1998 she atten ded the Film Academy in Ulaanbaatar, followed by studies at Munich’s University of Television and Film in the documentary department.
FILMOGRAPHY (utvalg/selection): 2001 Unterwegs, Portrait of a Girl 2003 The Story of the Weeping Camel (DOC, TIFF 2002) 2005 The Cave of the Yellow Dog 44
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