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The Good Soldier

The Good Soldier

  • Overview
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 3, 2021

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

החייל הטוב

Production Companies

comino films, Idéale Audience, NEOS Film

Director

Silvina Landsmann

Description

A look inside the work of Breaking the Silence, an organization of former IDF combat soldiers who collect and publish testimonies of soldiers who served in the occupied territories. For six months, director Silvina Landsmann, camera in hand, accompanied the staff of the organization. The many hours of footage have been refined into a film that dives into the heart of Breaking the Silence’s work: guided tours of Hebron and the surrounding area, public lectures and house meetings, internal staff meetings and media strategy. All the while the organization is forced to justify its very existence, both internally and to the broader public, and to justify its place in the political debate. The Good Soldier raises questions about Israel’s dynamic mainstream and the challenges of confronting it.