L’ATTENTAT – THE ATTACK
Ziad Doueiri l LEBANON, FRANCE, QATAR, EGYPT, BELGIUM, 2012 l 102′ l 35mm l color
Amin Jaafari è un chirurgo israelo-palestinese, ormai del tutto integrato nella società di Tel Aviv. È felicemente sposato, ha una splendida carriera e tanti amici ebrei. Quando un attentato kamikaze in un ristorante della città uccide 19 persone, la polizia israeliana lo informa che la responsabile è sua moglie Sihem, morta nell’esplosione. Dapprima incredulo, Amin respinge ogni accusa ma il ritrovamento di una lettera scritta dalla donna prima di morire non lascia adito a dubbi. Distrutto dalla rivelazione, alla ricerca di risposte alle mille domande sul perché non abbia colto le intenzioni di sua moglie, abbandona la tranquillità della sua vita e si addentra nei Territori Palestinesi per trovare i fanatici che crede abbiano reclutato Sihem.
Amin Jaafari is an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. He has a loving wife, a glittering career, and numerous Jewish friends. Then a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife – who also died in the explosion – was responsible. Amin rejects their accusation absolutely, but his conviction is shaken when he receives a posthumous letter from Sihem confirming her role in the carnage. Shattered by the revelation, desperate to understand how he missed any signs of her murderous intentions, Amin abandons the relative security of his adopted homeland and enters the Palestinian territories in pursuit of the zealots he believes recruited her.
Nato a Beirut nel 1963, Ziad Doueiri lascia il Libano nel 1983, nel pieno dell’invasione israeliana. Si trasferisce negli Stati Uniti, dove entra alla San Diego State University’s Film School. Viaggia tra gli USA e la Francia ed inizia a lavorare nel mondo del cinema come elettricista, operatore e assistente al montaggio. Nel 1986 lavora con Roger Corman sul set di The Munchies. Collabora poi con Quentin Tarantino come operatore per Le iene, Pulp Fiction e Jackie Brown e con Robert Rodriguez per Dal tramonto all’alba. West Beirut (1998), sua opera prima, viene selezionato alla Quinzaine des Réalisateurs del Festival di Cannes. Nel 2004 gira Lila dit ça (Lila Says), presentato al Sundance Film Festival; nel 2005 Immigrant e la serie Tv Sleeper Cell.
Ziad Doueiri was born in Beirut in 1963. He left Lebanon in 1983, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon. He moved to USA and at the age of 20 he was accepted by San Diego State University’s Film School. His first job in Hollywood in 1986 was working as an electrician and assistant editor for a low-budget film produced by Roger Corman, The Munchies. From there, he was hired as an assistant cameraman for Quentin Tarantino’s first film, Reservoir Dogs. This was followed by camera work on Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. Doueiri directed his first feature in 1998: West Beyrouth was selected at Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight. Lila Says (2004) was premiered at Sundance Film Festival. In 2005 he has directed Immigrant and the TV series Sleeper Cell.
Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Ziad Doueiri, Joëlle Touma
Fotografia / Cinematography: Tommaso Fiorilli
Montaggio / Editing: Dominique Marcombe, Ziad Doueiri
Musiche / Music: Eric Neveux
Suono / Sound: Pierre Gauthier, Olivier Walczak, Philippe Baudhuin, Rami Doueiri
Cast: Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsellem, Evgenia Dodina, Uri Gavriel, Karim Saleh, Dvir Benedek, Ruba Salameh, Ramzi Maqdisi
Produzione / Production: 3B Productions [www.3b-productions.com – contact@3b-productions.com], Broadcast Management Worldwide, Scope Pictures, Douri Films
World Sales: Wild Bunch [www.wildbunch.biz – cbaraton@wildbunch.eu]