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\u201cFalse Flag\u201d director Oded Raz is set to direct \u201cJerusalem 67,\u201d an epic period thriller retelling Israel\u2019s unlikely victory during the Six Day War in 1967. The long-gestating project is getting ready to shoot on location in Jerusalem on Aug. 16 and is being produced by New York-based Joseph Schick, a U.S. lawyer who started developing it over a decade ago.<\/p>\n
Yael Grobglas (\u201cSupergirl\u201d) is in advanced negotiations to play the lead role as a civilian haunted by a painful childhood who leaves her family to serve on the frontlines of war. Itzik Cohen, whose acting credits include \u201cFauda\u201d and \u201cThe Beauty Queen of Jerusalem\u201d is in advanced negotiations to join the cast.<\/p>\n
The key crew includes cinematographer Daniel Miller, who won the Israel Film Academy\u2019s Ophir Award for \u201cFig Tree\u201d and production designer Yoram Shayer, who won Israel\u2019s equivalent to the Oscars twice with \u201cIsh HaHashmal\u201d and \u201cTurn Left at the End of the World.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ambitious project is one of the first major international productions to proceed under the Israel Tax Rebate Program for film and TV productions which was created last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a challenging project. It\u2019s a war film and it\u2019s a period piece set in Jerusalem, and prior to the new Israeli production incentives program, we were trying to determine if we could recreate Israel in perhaps Cyprus or Greece, or another location in the Mediterranean,\u201d said Schick. \u201cThe tax incentive program was significant for us because Israel is not a cheap place to shoot and it allowed us to tell the story in the right place,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
Israel is currently torn by unprecedented revolts in response to the judicial overhaul plan of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, which is considered as the most right-wing and religiously conservative that the country has ever had. Schick says the ongoing turmoil echoes the backdrop of \u201cJerusalem 67.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1967, Israel had social, cultural, economic divisions and it wasn\u2019t a perfect society by any means. And I think what happened then is a reminder of how to handle that situation,\u201d says Schick.<\/p>\n
He revealed that one of the film\u2019s characters is a soldier in the Jerusalem Brigade, which is probably the most diverse unit in the world. \u201cIn this brigade you would have somebody who\u2019s very religious, fighting next to somebody who\u2019s a Hebrew university atheist professor, and a janitor and a lawyer. They were all equal. They were all the same. They all faced the same threat. So think 1967 is the guide of how do you deal with internal disputes. In 1967 there was unity,\u201d the producer continued.<\/p>\n
Raz, whose credits include \u201cFalse Flag,\u201d which Apple TV+ remade as \u201cSuspicion,\u201d said he also shot his previous film \u201cMaktub\u201d \u2013 one of Israel\u2019s biggest B.O. hits of all time which was picked up internationally by Netflix \u2014 in Jerusalem. \u201cJerusalem is a is a very special place to shoot. It\u2019s not an easy city to film every day. Something can happen because of the political situation but this environment and this atmosphere creates a special energy. It\u2019s so beautiful and historic that you cannot find the same elsewhere,\u201d the helmer continued. Although he wasn\u2019t born when the Six Day War happened, Raz says he has \u201cstrong memories\u201d of streets of the Old City from his \u201cexperience filming or from being a kid that was born in Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film will also shoot in other locations and include about a third interior scenes. \u201cWe\u2019re on the streets. We\u2019re in the hospital. We\u2019re on the frontlines, in the Old City, at the Western Wall,\u201d says Schick, adding that the plot of \u201cJerusalem 67\u201d is inspired by a true story and revolves around a \u201cmother who became a hero of the war and centers on the family.\u201d<\/p>\n
The movie will be mostly cast with Israeli actors, as well as a \u201cfew Western actors and possibly Israeli Americans who who are familiar faces in Hollywood,\u201d the producer said.<\/p>\n
Raz also said the boom of Israeli TV series in the last decade has raised the quality of local crew members. \u201cWe have high standards because crew members have been working on very big productions abroad and there are also large productions coming to Israel like \u2018Hit and Run\u2019 and \u2018Tyrant,\u2019 on top of all kinds of American movies that are coming to Israel,\u201d said Raz, who cited \u201cTehran,\u201d an Israeli-American co-production, \u201cnow filming in Greece and 80% of the crew are from Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJerusalem 67\u201d is being financed by Gesher Multicultural Film Fund and the Maimonides Fund, along with some private equity financing from the U.S. Grobglas is repped by Niv Eshet Cohen, who also represents Oded Raz. The film is represented by Tiffany Boyle of Ramo Law.<\/p>\n
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