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Movie poster: Tantura (2022)
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2022 · 95 min Documentary History
7.7 / 10 · TMDB

Israeli student Teddy Katz, in the late 1990s, presents groundbreaking research exposing a massacre of Palestinian civilians in the village of Tantura in May 1948. His work, built on interviews with Israeli veterans, is initially hailed, then violently turned against him. Branded a traitor, Katz faces a devastating campaign to discredit him and revoke his academic degree. Decades later, explosive new evidence surfaces, corroborating his original findings. The film meticulously dissects both the historical event and the machinery of its subsequent erasure, weaving together testimonies from soldiers, historians, and archivists in a tense forensic investigation.

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Year 2022
Country Israel, United States of America
Genre Documentary, History
Director Alon Schwarz
Runtime 95 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.7/10 (20 votes)

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"Tantura" operates less as a conventional documentary and more as a forensic excavation of memory and denial. Director Alon Schwarz masterfully constructs a tense procedural, where each piece of archival audio and every hesitant testimony becomes a crucial piece of evidence in a decades-old cover-up.

What lingers after the final frame is a profound unease about the stories we choose to legitimize and those we violently suppress. It's a chilling examination of how national identity is built upon buried trauma. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Alon Schwarz

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