Twickenham Street, a South London thoroughfare, will be disguised as the main street of a 19th Century Russian “shtetl” for the filming of a biographical documentary of the life of former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion of Israel. Covenant Communications Corp., which is making the film, intended to shoot the sequences in the Polish town of Plonsk, where Mr. Ben Gurion was born and spent his childhood. But the Warsaw authorities refused to grant them permission.
Most of the film has been shot on location in Israel. But parts of London will be used for sequences concerning Mr. Ben Gurion’s activities here. They include a hotel where he stayed and the Battersea Town Hall which will stand in for the British Foreign Office.
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