91 minutes
11/20/1968
A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of struggle for religious freedom is vividly recorded using rare archive film footage and photographs of historic events in the development of 20th century Israel. Beginning with the Dreyfus Affair in 1894, the film covers Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism; the earliest immigration and settlements; the formation of kibbutzim; the Balfour Declaration; the rise of European anti-Semitism; the British occupation of Palestine; Arab confrontations; the United Nations resolution; the "Exodus" incident, and the Six Day War.
Georges Descrières
as Narrator (voice)
Bérengère Dautun
as Narrator (voice)
Michel Bouquet
as Narrator (citations) (voice)
The King Abdullah
as Self - First King of Jordan (archive footage)
Edmund Allenby
as Self (archive footage)
Lord Balfour
as Self (archive footage)
David Ben-Gurion
as Self (archive footage)
Folke Bernadotte
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Burton
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
Neville Chamberlain
as Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
as Self (archive footage)
Allan Cunningham
as Self (archive footage)
Édouard Daladier
as Self (archive footage)
Moshe Dayan
as Self (archive footage)
Adolf Eichmann
as Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self (archive footage)
El Hadj Amine El Houssaini
as Self
King Faruk
as Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
as Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage)
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
as Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self (archive footage)
King Faisal I
as Self (archive footage)
T.E. Lawrence
as Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
as Self (archive footage)
Gamal Abdel Nasser
as Self (archive footage)
Glubb Pasha
as Self (archive footage)
Herbert Samuel
as Self (archive footage)
Zalman Shazar
as Self (archive footage)
U Thant
as Self (archive footage)
Haim Weisman
as Self (archive footage)