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The Other Promised Land

Director and Producer

הייתה יכולה להיות לנו ארץ אחרת

במאי ומפיק

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Year

1999

Duration

50

Genre

Documentary

Production details

Production country: Israel
Filming Location: Kenya, Uganda
Image: Color
Languages: Hebrew, English with Hebrew Subtitles
Available Formats: BETACAM, DVD

Credits

Director: Micha Shagrir
Producers: Micha Shagrir
Production Company: Shiba Communications Ltd.
Cinematography: Meni Elias
Editing: Matityahu Ben Amos
Original Music: Nachum Heiman
Sound: Tomer Blayer
Sound Editor: Aviv Aldema
Executive Producer: Yael Hadassi
Interviews and production management: Revital Chitayat
Research: Yael Hadassi, Revital Chitayat
Stills: Alex Levac

In 1905, the Zionist Congress sent a delegation to Eastern Africa to examine the possibility of implementing an initiative that Herzl himself put forth – to establish a Jewish state in Africa. Among the members of this delegation was the Israeli engineer Nahum Wilbush who documented the journey in his diary, which he wrote in Hebrew. With the exquisite views of Eastern Africa as the background, this film embarks on a journey tracing entries from the Wilbush diary. And following the original route of the delegation, the film meets Jews and Israelis who have visited this area and continue to inhabit it to this day.

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