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What if? Ehud Barak on War and Peace

What if? Ehud Barak on War and Peace

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 12, 2020

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

65%

Original Title

מה היה קורה אילו? אהוד ברק על מלחמה ושלום

Production Companies

Lama Films

Director

Ran Tal

Description

Can a leader succeed in influencing the world? Or is he, as any other human being, only a nutshell tossed to the waves of history with no ability to affect it? Tolstoy pondered this question in War and Peace. Ehud Barak, controversial former prime minister and a decorated commander on the battlefield, contemplates it in this film. Twenty years after he was forced to resign from the premiership due to the failure of the 2000 Camp David summit, 78-year-old Barak observes his own history and the history of the State of Israel with disillusioned clarity, while trying to figure it all out - "What if?"