SummaryIn 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 ... Read More
Directed By:Yaron Zilberman
Written By:Ron Leshem, Yaron Zilberman, Yair Hizmi
Incitement
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77
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Jan 26, 2020
88
Movies about assassins (“Nine Hours to Rama,” “The Gandhi Murder”) rarely get this deeply into the life and conditions that inspire a political murder. “Incitement,” which swept last year’s Israeli Academy Awards and was Israel’s entry as “Best International Feature” for Hollywood’s Oscars, manages to be both thorough, damning and fraught throughout.
Feb 6, 2020
80
A chilling portrait of how fanaticism can grow and be enabled, this is a matter-of-fact film that moves with an awful inexorability toward its foregone conclusion.
Jan 30, 2020
80
A rare look into the mind of an assassin, Incitement provokes and disturbs.
Jan 30, 2020
80
Potently, Incitement depicts Amir as just one member of a self-reinforcing fringe.
Jan 31, 2020
75
The extreme, sharply divisive, partisan language might have seemed a world away to us if we had seen it 25 years ago. Now, it seems chillingly close.
Jan 30, 2020
75
Admirably, Yaron Zilberman’s film focuses on the cyclical nature of violence in a decades-old conflict.
Jan 30, 2020
70
While Incitement is a compelling watch, with archival footage neatly woven in, and offers a salutary warning about how easily democracies are endangered, this psychological profile of a political assassin nevertheless falls into a kind of moral trap.
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Apr 25, 2020
5
This occasionally-thrilling, though often-overwrought and somewhat overlong film detailing the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, as told from the viewpoint of his killer, baffles as much as it illuminates. With the exception of a handful of scenes in which assassin Yigal Amir is discouraged by family and friends for his views and plans, his actions otherwise are more glorified than condemned, while the right-wing nature of his politics (and his reasoning for shooting Rabin) is shrilled all out of proportion, almost to the point of sheer annoyance. Filmmaker Yaron Zilberman's treatment of the material is indeed odd, even if technically well orchestrated. But, despite this technical proficiency, one can't help but wonder what exactly the director was going for here -- or why there even needed to be a picture addressing this subject in this manner at this time. Quite a puzzle, to be sure.
Production Company:
- Metro Communications
- Opening Night Productions
- Mountaintop Productions
- WestEnd Films
Release Date:Jan 31, 2020
Duration:2 h 3 m
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Awards
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 2 Wins & 10 Nominations
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
