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A former Nazi sits behind a film clapboard

An Israeli documentary about Albert Speer falsified key material, one of its subjects claims

The screenwriter who worked with Speer to adapt his story into a film alleges that the documentary’s director distorted his conversations with Speer in ways that create the impression that he was also antisemitic.

By Andrew Lapin December 7, 2021 10:00 am

Film about Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin is Israel’s entry for Academy Awards

“Incitement” winning for best film has incensed the nation’s culture minister.

September 23, 2019 9:07 am

Controversial Israeli film ‘Foxtrot’ makes Oscar shortlist

Israel’s culture minister said the film, one of nine picked in the foreign language category, attempts to “undermine” her country and its soldiers’ morality.

December 15, 2017 9:38 am