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Samuel Maoz
Bornc. 1962
OccupationFilm director

Samuel Maoz (Hebrew: שמואל מעוז; born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director, notable for his controversial 2009 film, Lebanon that won the Leone d'Oro at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.[1]

Maoz, also known as Maoz Shmuel, Shmulik Maoz or Shmulik Maoz, was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 20, he was a gunner in one of the first Israeli tanks to enter Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War.[2]

After the war, he trained as a cameraman at the Academy of Art Beit Tzvi and did art direction in film and television productions.[3] As a director, Maoz was associated with the production of documentary films such as the ARTE production of Total Eclipse (2000) with Yevgenya Dodina,[4] television series and theatrical responsible.[3]

In 2007, Maoz began the process for Lebanon, his first feature film project. The script, based solely on Maoz's personal experiences, describes the traumatic experiences of a four-man Israeli tank crew in a Lebanese village early in the war. "It took 20 years for me, before I had the strength to write the screenplay. When I was in Lebanon, it changed my life. I killed people while I was there. The film looks at very complicated problems."[5] was financially supported Maoz 'directing, inter alia, by the Film Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia, which emphasized that the film "entirely up to the tank crew" would remain. 'See the war and the oppressive threat is only through the viewfinder of the scope."[6]

At the end of July 2009 for his feature film debut Maoz received an invitation to the competition of the 66th Venice Film Festival, where he won the Golden Lion the main prize of the festival,[7] after having had been rejected at the Berlin and the Cannes film festivals.[8] The German press said the majority of the audience was excited about the film. Lebanon was praised as one of the most compelling competition entries, as "far beyond the specific historical event out to a universal parable about the war",[9] during the Austrian default, the conceptual idea of the claustrophobic chamber game as extremely effective means of emphasizing to address the uncertainties of war.[10] In the same year the film was nominated in ten categories for the Ophir, Israel's national film awards.

References

  1. ^ "66th Venice International Film Festival: Official Awards". labiennale.org. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
  2. ^ Erlanger, Stephen (July 30, 2010), "'Lebanon', Samuel Maoz's Tank's-Eye View of War", The New York Times, retrieved August 3, 2010.
  3. ^ a b see profile in tiff.net (accessed on 5 September 2009)
  4. ^ see Head, Shula:Prima Dodina. In: The Jerusalem Post, 30 May 2003, p. 12
  5. ^ cf Jaafar, Ali:tackle Lebanese Israeli occupation. In: Variety, 12 to 18 June 2006, p. 12
  6. ^ cf NRWmoviesin Venice. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn), 31 July 2009, p. 12
  7. ^ Awards at labiennale.org, 12 September 2009
  8. ^ See Elley, Derek pics, 3-Dfills out lineup. In: Variety, 31 August-6th September 2009 (accessed on September 5, 2009 via LexisNexis business)
  9. ^ cf Zander, Peter: coup and war in Venice: German film in competition is prize- at welt.de, 9 September 2009 (ref called on September 12, 2009)
  10. ^ See Kamalzadeh, Dominik The Truth About Cats effect at derstandard.at, 8 Ref September 2009 (accessed on 12 September 2009)
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