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Degania: The First Kibbutz Fights Its Last Battle
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Wikipedia article
'Degania: The First Kibbutz Fights Its Last Battle' is a 2008 Israeli documentary directed by Yitzhak Rubin that premiered at the Haifa International Film Festival.
The film's subject is the bitter dispute over the transition of the first kibbutz, Deganiaestablished in 1910 by a dozen young idealists on the banks of the Jordan Riverfrom a model based on socialism, egalitarianism and mutual responsibility to one of free market capitalism and differential salaries. It follows the emotional and heated debates leading up to the fateful day in March 2007 when kibbutzniks voted on the proposal to privatize their community.
Reception
Rubin's documentary, which was shown at a number of kibbutzim, stimulated profound discussion. Former Knesset member Ran Cohen said that "the film represents both [the] dream and [the] disillusionment" that was the kibbutz experiment.Quoted in Lilach Gavish (April 7, 2009), [http://www.jpost.com/LocalIsrael/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=138512 "A Collective Conundrum"], 'The Jerusalem Post' (accessed November 8, 2012).
One Israeli reviewer, Meir Shnitzer, wrote that Rubin's film "is an important document. It is profound testimony highlighting the myth of privatization as every day the stock exchanges around the world expose the bluff. This is an overview of the process through which traditional values in Israeli society are crumbling away."Meir Shnitzer (October 16, 2008), [http://www.nrg.co.il/online/47/ART1/799/504.html "The Last Battle of Degania: An Important Document"], NRG 'Maariv' [Hebrew] (accessed November 8, 2012).
See also
* Israeli cinema
References
Category:2008 films
Category:Israeli documentary films
Category:2000s Hebrew-language films
Category:Films about the kibbutz
Category:2008 documentary films
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