GOOD MORNING ISRAEL
“Good Morning Israel” won the first prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was introduced into the curricula of the Ministry of Education, the Israel Defense Forces’, Bney Akiva, Hashomer Hatzair, the Israel Scouts, the Jewish Agency.
The film follows the daily lives of five boys from different sectors comprising Israeli society in the period of their adolescence; what are their similarities and their differences, what happens to them.
In the sequels “Good Morning Israel – 10 years later” and “Good Morning Israel – 20 years later” Har-Gil returned to check what has changed in the lives of the boys he filmed in adolescence and through them attempt to understand what has changed in Israeli society.
DETAILS
Good Morning Israel
Script and directing: Prof. Amir Har-Gil
Production: Amir Har-Gil, Nachshon Axelrod
Editing: Yael Perlov
Filming: Ofer Yanoov
Length: 13 mins. Israel, 1986
Good Morning Israel – 10 years later
Script and directing: Amir Har-Gil
Production: Amir Har-Gil, Nachshon Axelrod
Editing: Avital Benacot
Filming: Over Yanoov, Ofer Harari
Length: 42 mins. Israel, 1995
Good Morning Israel – 20 years later
Driector: Amir Har-Gil
Production: Yahali Gat, Musa Productions
Editing: Micha Livneh
Filming: Ofer Yanoov
Length: 60 mins. Israel, 2007
GALLERY
REVIEWS
"I woke up, washed up, dressed… it can also result in very interesting cinematic... It presents a densely packed social microcosm. *Good Morning Israel* is indeed the most complete and mature of them all... Har-Gil’s creativity was evident even earlier in his short film *A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey."
Yehudit Orian, Laisha
"Beyond the curiosity the story evokes, these television time capsules teach us not only about the children but also about ourselves: what we thought, wanted, and dreamed 20-30 years ago, and whether any of our expectations stood the test of time".
Nir Kipnis, Globes