Bialik – King of the Jews
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Bialik – King of the Jews
By the age of thirty he’d already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. He spent very few years living in Tel Aviv, but he loved the city dearly. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934. “King of the Jews” is a portrait of the most beloved Jew of his day, Chaim Nachman Bialik. Combining special animation, a voice track by Chaim Topol, rare archival footage, long-forgotten photographs, poems by Bialik performed by Ninet and interviews with the foremost Bialik researchers and fans in Israel and around the world, this film retells the story of the little boy from the shtetl, who became King of the Jews.
Festivals and Awards:
DocAviv International Film Festival, Israel, 2014
Director: Yair Qedar, Animator: Jewboy
Producer: Yair Qedar
Cinematographer: Philip Bellaish
Editor: Rachel Lea Jones, Ayala Bengad
Soundtrack Editor: Aviv Aldema
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television;The Avi Chai Foundation,Channel 8 Noga comunications, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, HOT,Pais Council for Arts and Culture
Musicians: Ninet
Script: Yair Qedar
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: מלך היהודים
Category: Art and Culture / History / Judaism and Jewish Culture
By the age of thirty he’d already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. He spent very few years living in Tel Aviv, but he loved the city dearly. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934. “King of the Jews” is a portrait of the most beloved Jew of his day, Chaim Nachman Bialik. Combining special animation, a voice track by Chaim Topol, rare archival footage, long-forgotten photographs, poems by Bialik performed by Ninet and interviews with the foremost Bialik researchers and fans in Israel and around the world, this film retells the story of the little boy from the shtetl, who became King of the Jews.
Festivals and Awards:
DocAviv International Film Festival, Israel, 2014
Director: Yair Qedar, Animator: Jewboy
Producer: Yair Qedar
Cinematographer: Philip Bellaish
Editor: Rachel Lea Jones, Ayala Bengad
Soundtrack Editor: Aviv Aldema
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television;The Avi Chai Foundation,Channel 8 Noga comunications, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, HOT,Pais Council for Arts and Culture
Musicians: Ninet
Script: Yair Qedar
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: מלך היהודים
Category: Art and Culture / History / Judaism and Jewish Culture