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Cover photo:David BenGurion on theset of the 1968 interviewPhoto Courtesy of DavidMarks

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DOCUMENTARY (70 MIN. / 60 MIN.)

ISRAEL, FRANCE, GERMANY, 2016

ENGLISH, HEBREW

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BYYariv Mozer

EDITED BYYael Perlov

PRODUCED BY Yael Perlov, Yariv Mozer, Juliette

Guigon, Patrick Winocour

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DAVID BEN GURION ON THEBALCONY OF THE NEGEVCOLLEGE LIBRARYOVERLOOKING THEWILDERNESS OF ZIN ON HIS82ND BIRTHDAY AT SDEHBOKER.Photo: COHEN FRITZ (GPO)

LOGLINE Synopsis 50 words:A six-hour interview with David Ben-Gurionemerges from the obscurity of an archive where ithas lain unrecognised for decades. Ben-Gurion is82 years old and lives in the desert, remote from allpolitical discourse, which allows him a perspectiveon the Zionist enterprise, and a surprising vision forthe future of Israel.

Synopsis 100 words:A six-hour interview with David Ben-Gurion, one ofmodern history’s greatest leaders, emerges fromthe obscurity of an archive where it has lainunrecognised for decades. It is 1968, and Ben-Gurion is 82 years old. He lives in the seclusion ofhis home in the desert, remote from all politicaldiscourse, which allows him a perspective on theZionist enterprise. His introspective soul-searchingis the focus of this film, and his reflections providea surprising vision for today’s crucial decisions andfor the future of Israel.

Based on archive material only,the film reveals the final yearsof Israel's founder, David Ben-Gurion. Excluded fromleadership, he allowed himselfa hindsight perspective on theZionist enterprise.

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David Ben-Gurion Photo Courtesy of David Marks



It is 1968. Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founder and first prime minister, is82. He lives in a secluded home inthe Negev desert, a symbol of hisdevotion to the settlement of thesouthern reaches of Israel, and theplace he will live out his days.

Nearly six decades after the filming ofthe interview, and now interlaced withnewsreel and other film archives, radiorecordings, and still-photographs, alldating from the events described, thefilm revisits Ben-Gurion’s opinions andhis prophecies.

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The final ten years in the life of theleader, after he had declined futheroffice, and distanced himself from allleadership discourse, allowed him ahindsight perspective on the entireZionist enterprise.

From depths of an archive a stack of 35mm filmreels emerge. They contain six hours of a neverbefore seen interview with David Ben-Gurion, oneof the Zionist movement’s most iconic figures, andone of modern history’s great leaders.

B E N - G U R I O N , E P I L O G U E

(16 Oct. 1886 – 1 Dec. 1973)was the primary founder ofthe State of Israel and the

first Prime Minister of Israel.

SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA.COM

Ben-Gurion was now able to express hisfrank opinions about all that was goingon around him, and to engage in trulyintrospective soul-searching. This wouldbecome the focus of the film.

Anticipating a future that would call forcritical decisions to ensure the survival ofIsrael, the film turns back in time, inorder to listen to Ben-Gurion’s lucidvoice and to seek answers for today andfor tomorrow.

DAVIDBEN-GURION

He sat for two hours a day, overthree consecutive days, and spoke inEnglish. He wore a turtlenecksweater, his casual uniform forcooler days. When the interviewersaid he was ready to wrap up thefinal session, Ben-Gurion protestedthat they still had 10 minutes to go.

But the reels of silent footage andthe soundtrack languished fordecades in separate archives.Excerpts from the recentlyrediscovered conversation form thecore of a new documentary, “Ben-Gurion, Epilogue,” in which theZionist luminary offers a raw,contemplative self-analysis of hislife’s work...

Interwoven with other footage fromthe period — of meetings withforeign leaders, a speech in Israel’sParliament, birthday celebrations —the film is, in part, a wistful ode to alost generation of leaders whoviewed simplicity as a virtue even asthey strove for giant goals.

AboveBen-Gurion 1968 InterviewPhoto by Malcolm Stewart

“The most importantthing which I learned,I learned by livinghere,” he said.

“I want to live in aplace when I knowthat my friends, andmyself, we did it!Everything. It’s ourcreation.”

“Ben-Gurion on Israel, Peace andBack Pain: A Lost Interview IsBrought to Life”

By ISABEL KERSHNER Publication date: AUG. 12, 2016http://nyti.ms/2aH4dXB

It was April 1968, and “The OldMan,” as Ben-Gurion wasnicknamed for much of his life,had been largely abandoned byhis own political protégés. Paula,his rather brusque and devotedwife, had died that January,leaving him in near isolation in hischosen retirement home in SdeBoker, a remote communalvillage in the Negev desert.

“The most important thing whichI learned, I learned by living here,”he said. “I want to live in a placewhen I know that my friends, andmyself, we did it. Everything. It’sour creation.”


“There is an absence of leadership withthose values and that vision,” said YarivMozer, the Israeli writer, director andproducer of the movie, which premieredlast month at the Jerusalem Film Festival.The film, and the recent book by AviShilon on which it is based, Mr. Mozeradded, “reflect the interest of someyoung Israelis to turn back to our history,to our past, in order to find answers fortoday and maybe for the future.”


David Ben-Gurion Photos Courtesy of David Marks andPerlov family

Yariv Mozer and Yael

Perlov uncovered the

lost interview almost

by chance, in the

Steven Spielberg

Jewish Film Archive in

Jerusalem. There,

while working to

restore an old feature

film about Ben-Gurion

by Perlov’s late father,

David Perlov, they

tripped across the

silent film reels. It took

six months to find the

soundtrack, which they

did in the Ben-Gurion

Archives in the Negev.


David Ben-GurionPhoto PRIDAN MOSHEGPO

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Israeli Film Director, DavidPerlov (1933-2003), was thefirst and only filmmaker ever tohave made a film about Ben-

Gurion's life, but the film -

a fiction film - "42:6" (1970)

was forgotten andsubsequently vanished.

While working on thereconstruction of Perlov's film,together with his daughter,Yael Perlov, also a film-

maker and The HebrewUniversity's Spielberg Archive, Iwas surprised to unearth sixhours of rushes containing afilmed interview in English withBen-Gurion.

The interview was conductedas part of the pre-productionwork on Perlov's film. It was aunique interview with DavidBen-Gurion, in which he delvedinto many issues relating to theZionist enterprise.

The interview, which wasinitiated by the British producerof “42:6”, Melville Mark, hadnever been shown, and muchof its sound track appeared tobe missing.

Written by Yariv Mozer


Through this unique archive material we have uncovered, Iwanted to revisit the man upon whose vision and perceptionthe State of Israel was established and to represent his ideas.

In the midst of this present day period when several majordecisions impacting the future of Israel seem imminent,especially concerning the most fundamental of politicalsubjects and the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Ben-Gurion's visionoffers a clear cut, accurate and surprising point of view onthese core issues.

One cannot help but feel that if we were still under theleadership of a man as brave as he was, then reality wouldsurely look altogether different.

Director's Statement

The interviewer was Dr. ClintonBailey, a recent immigrant toIsrael, who had come to liveat Kibbutz Sde Boker in thefootsteps of Ben-Gurion.

The interview took placein April, 1968. Ben-Gurion was82. His wife had died only fourmonths earlier, but he continuedto live on his own, with hisbodyguards, in his desert home.

A long search led us to acclaimedBritish sound recordist, MalcolmStewart, who had kept theoriginal sound reels safe until heeventually donated them to theBen-Gurion University of theNegev and the Ben-GurionArchive, though he had noknowledge of where thematching picture reels of theinterview were.

We immediately began theprocess of matching the soundwith the image at the end ofwhich, for the first time, theunique and intimate interviewwith David Ben-Gurion wasrevealed.



Yariv Mozer graduated with distinction fromTel-Aviv University’s Film and TelevisionDepartment in 2004. Since then he hasdirected documentary and feature films,among them are "Ben-Gurion, Epilogue"(Israel-France-Germany 2016), "Snails in theRain" (Israel-Spain 2013), "The InvisibleMen" (Israel-The Netherlands 2012), and"My First War" (Israel 2008). His films havebeen shown in film festivals worldwide andwon several awards.

Mozer has also produced more than 15 filmsamong them are "The Heart of Jenin"(Germany 2008) and "Inheritance" (Israel-France-Turkey 2012).

Mozer, former head of EntrepreneurialProducing Program at the Jerusalem SamSpiegel Film School (2007-2010), andformer director of the 10th Tel AvivInternational Student Film Festival (June2004).

Mozer is a graduate of The EuropeanAudiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE)Producer's workshop. He is a member ofthe European Film Academy and TheIsraeli Academy of Motion Pictures.

AboveYariv Mozer

Photo by Moti Milrod.

Director's Filmography:"Ben-Gurion, Epilogue"(Israel-France-Germany2016)

"Snails in the Rain"(Israel-Spain 2013)

"The Invisible Men"(Israel-The Netherlands2012)

"My First War"(Israel 2008),

YARIVMOZERWriter, Director, Producer

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Israeli Academy Award-winner for herediting work on Late Marriage (2001),directed by D. Kosashvili, Perlov is also therecipient of the Ministry of Education andCulture's Film Art Prize.

She has led, produced and edited multiplefeature and documentary films, amongthem: Diary (1973-1983) directed by herfather, Israeli Prize Winner, David Perlov,The Settlers (2002) directed by Ruth Walkand co-produced with BBC, My First War(2008) directed by Yariv Mozer and co-produced with Zdf-Arte, the documentaryseries about Israeli women writers andpoets, A Room of Your Own (2006-2011).

Over the last five years, alongside theTel Aviv University film department,Perlov initiated and worked as artisticdirector and producer on the Israeli-Palestinian feature film project, Water(Israel-France, 2012), premiered at theVenice International Film Festival andwinner of The 2012 France AmnestyInternational Award. She has alsoproduced Sport (Israel-France. 2015)released in 2015.

Yael Perlov teaches film studies and forthe past two decades has been lecturingat Tel Aviv University's Department ofFilm & Television Studies.

AboveYael Perlov

YAELPERLOVProducer, Film Editor


Selected Filmography:"Sport" Producer(Israel, France 2015)

"Water" Producer(Israel, France 2012)

"My First War" Film Editor & Producer (Israel 2008)

"The Settlers" Film Editor(Israel, UK 2002)

"Late Marriage" Film Editor(Israel, France 2001)

"DIARY" Film Editor(Israel 1990)

The former prime minister had chosen theinterviewer, Clinton Bailey, who was then arecent immigrant from the United States. Mr.Bailey had been befriended by the Ben-Gurionsafter Paula invited him in for tea one day whenhe was wandering near their home in Tel Aviv.

Ben-Gurion helped Mr. Bailey secure a teachingjob at the academy he had established at SdeBoker, and Mr. Bailey would sometimes join theaging politician on his brisk walks around thekibbutz.

Mr. Bailey went on to become an eminent scholarof Bedouin culture — and mostly forgot aboutthe 1968 interview. Recalling the period, Mr.Bailey said the simplicity of the Ben-Gurions’ cabinat Sde Boker was “a statement,” adding: “ I don’tthink Ben-Gurion wanted the perks of power.”

For many years, in addition to his research andwritings on Bedouin life, Dr. Bailey haschampioned the cause of Bedouin rights in Israel.In 1994, he was awarded the prestigious EmilGrunzweig Human Rights Award, presentedannually by the Association for Civil Rights inIsrael.

AboveClinton Baily and Ben-Gurion

Photo by Arie Bar-Lev

DR. CLINTONBAILEYInterviewer


Dr. Avi Shilon holds a Ph.D in PoliticalScience (Bar-Ilan University) and anM.A. in Jewish History (Tel AvivUniversity). His dissertation wasentitled, The Revisionist MovementLeaders' Attitudes Toward JewishReligion, 1925-2005. His mainresearch interests are in modernJewish and Israeli history, with aparticular focus on the Zionist rightwing and Israeli politics.

He is the author of Menachem Begin:A Life (Yale, 2012) and Ben Gurion,Epilogue (Am-Oved, 2013). He waspreviously a 2015 post-doctoralfellow at the Ben-Gurion ResearchInstitute for the Study of Israel andZionism and a research fellow at TheMinerva Humanities Center, Tel AvivUniversity. Shilon has served as acorrespondent and editor formultiple Israeli news media; he iscurrently a columnist for Haaretz.

AboveAvi Shilon and the book cover

Publications:

Ben Gurion: His Later Years in thePolitical Wilderness(Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)

Ben Gurion, Epilogue(Am-Oved, 2013)

Menachem Begin: A Life(Yale, 2012)

AVISHILONAuthor "Ben-Gurion, Epilogue" (Am Oved)


Born in 1929, Malcolm flew as a cadet asearly as 1943. In 1944 he joined the BBC,working in Forces Broadcasting inHamburg.

As well as television, Malcolm hasworked on numerous feature films,including: "The Italian Job" (1969)directed by Peter Collinson, "2001: ASpace Odyssey" (1968) directed byStanley Kubrick, "Darling" (1965)directed by John Schlesinger, "Lawrenceof Arabia" (1962), and "The Bridge onthe River Kwai" (1957) both directed byDavid Lean.

AboveMalcolm Stewart on the set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)

Below, Malcolm Stewart and David Ben-GurionPhotos Courtesy of Malcolm Srewart

MALCOLMSTEWARTThe 1968 Interview Sound Recorder

Stewart, a British Jew, volunteered to workon the set of the 1968 interview with DavidBen-Gurion. Following his admiration forthe elder statesman, he traveled especiallyfrom the UK to Israel to contribute histalent and professional expertise to theunique production. He retained the original1/4–inch sound reels in his possession, untilhe recently donated them to the Ben-Gurion Archive at Midreshet Ben-Gurion inSde Boker, part of The Ben-GurionUniversity of the Negev.

Stewart was chairman of De Lane Lea inLondon, the largest Post-Production facilityin Europe, recently taken over by WARNERBROS. He retired in 1987.


John Keltonic has been creatingoriginal music scores for US nationalfilm and television projects for overtwenty years. Clients have includedPBS, BBC, Discovery Channel andCNN.

An Emmy award winning composer,he has written scores for Ken Burns,the Olympics, and dozens of networkspecials.

AboveComposer John KeltonicPhoto by Scott Elmquist

JOHNKELTONICMusic Composer

Films that he scored have wonnational Emmys, PeabodyAwards, and countless film-festival awards, among them areAcademy Award Nominee forbest documentary"Autism Is AWorld" and"Over Alaska" Emmy for bestoriginal music.

Selected Filmography:

The Power of Forgiveness (2007)

Bonhoeffer (2003)

Bringing Down a Dictator (2002)

Korean War Stories (2001)

A Force More Powerful (1999)


David PerlovI N M E M O R Y O F ( 1 9 3 0 - 2 0 0 3 )

David Perlov was born in Rio de Janeiro andgrew up in Belo Horizonte.

In 1958, Perlov emigrated to Israel, settling withhis wife Mira on Kibbutz Bror Hayil. They latermoved to Tel-Aviv. In 1963, Perlov made a 33-minute documentary, "In Jerusalem", whichcame to be recognised as one of the mostimportant films in Israeli documentary cinema.

Although by 1972 Perlov had made two featurefilms ("The Pill" and "42:6"), his film proposalswere often rejected by the Israel BroadcastingAuthority and Israeli film board, which foundhis work too lyrical.

In early 1973, Perlov bought a 16 mm cameraand and began to film his everyday lifealongside the dramatic events taking placein Israel at the time. He continued for 10years until in 1983 the UK network, Channel 4,expressed an interest in the project. The resultwas Perlov's acclaimed work DIARY (Yoman).

From 1973 Perlov taught in the departmentof film and television at Tel AvivUniversity. In 1999, Perlov was awarded theIsrael Prize for his contribution to cinema.

BEN-GURION, EPILOGUE | 18 David Perlov Photo Courtesy of Perlov Family

Melville MarkI N M E M O R Y O F ( 1 9 2 1 - 1 9 9 7 )

Melville Mark, who has died aged 76, was oneof the unsung heroes of Israel's 1948 War ofIndependence. Born in Manchester, from hisearliest years he was associated with socialistZionist youth organizations.

Melville took part in post-war Jewishunderground movements in Europe, smugglingHolocaust survivors onto the ships that wouldcarry them to Palestine. He later joined the‘Haganah’ and fought in Israel’s battle ofliberation.

The end of the 48 war saw him enlisted inthe Mossad, using his six-foot height,ginger hair, and British passport in the noless dangerous role of secret agent inTurkey and elsewhere. The Mossadchapter has remained a closed book: hewould never discuss it.

He had established himself in Geneva as acorrespondent for United Press, and becameinvolved with film producers, setting up thefirst Montreux International Golden RoseTV Festival. In Israel in 1976 he established thefirst World Jewish Film and Television Festival.

In the late 1960s he produced "42:6" a filmbased on David Ben-Gurion's life story. Thecollaboration with Ben-Gurion in 1969consisted of filmed interviews, but Ben-Gurion was then pressured intowithdrawing from a joint publishingventure he and Melville had agreed.

In his seventies, Melville joined his architectson David in the Millenium Wheel Company,established to build the London Eye, however,he died in 1997, before its opening in 2000.


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42:6SOON TO BE RELEASED ,A F ILM RESTORED

Perlov's second film, “42:6,” is a biography of David Ben-

Gurion, following Israel's first prime minister from hischildhood in Poland to his move to Sde Boker, thekibbutz in the Negev where he lived the latter half ofhis life. The film’s title refers to the Bible, Isaiah 42:6:

"I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant forthe people and a light for the nations,"

A feature Film by David Perlov


On the set of 42:6 Photos Courtesy of David Marks and Perlov family

DAVID PERLOV & DAVID BEN-GURIONPHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID MARKS AND

PERLOV FAMILY


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Ben-Gurionepilogue .All rights reserved (C)

Written and Directed by Yariv Mozer

Producers Yael Perlov, Yariv Mozer, JulietteGuigon, Patrick Winocour

Edited by Yael Perlov

Executive Producer Schaul Scherzer

Co-Producer Nathan Hevroni

Based on "Ben-Gurion, Epilogue" by Avi Shilon

Sound designer Ami Arad

Original Music John Keltonik

Interviewer Dr. Clinton Bailey

Research Yariv Mozer Hila Aviram Yael Perlov

A co-production ofMozer FilmsQuark ProductionsARTE FranceNDR GermanyYael Perlov

In association withHOT 8The Ben-Gurion Heritage InstituteSociété Radio-Canada and ICI RDI

With the support ofIsrael Film Council, Ministry of Culture and SportThe Rabinovich Foundation for the ArtsMakor FoundationGesher Multicultural Film FundAvi Chai foundation

And with the collaboration ofHaPais Council for the Culture and ArtsThe Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Studyof Israel & ZionismThe Jewish National FundOther Israel Film Fund

World SalesGo2Films | www.go2films.com

Managing Director Hedva [email protected]

Issar Natanzon 37/897787 JerusalemIsraelTel: +972-2-5831371


Photo: Paul Goldman Courtesy of Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv

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