The film “Legend of Destruction”, which won four Ophir Awards in the past year, and brought to the theaters more than tens of thousands of viewers, is now coming to a televised premiere on Here 11 and HOT8. Directed by Gidi Der, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Shuli Rand, it is an extraordinary cinematic epic composed of over 1,500 paintings by artists David Polonsky and Michael Faust, and it brings for the first time one of the most important stories in the history of the Jewish people: The Jewish Rebellion in the Roman Empire. Which took place between 66-70 AD, deteriorated into a civil war and led to the destruction of the Second Temple, and a two-thousand-year exile that lasted until the establishment of the State of Israel.
The film is told from the point of view of Ben Batikh, a character whose origins are in the legends of destruction in the Talmud. Ben Batikh becomes one of the zealous leaders from an innocent and soft-spoken young man. The pursuit of justice and freedom pushes it to extremist acts that will affect the fate of the Jewish people. At the end of the film the viewer asks himself whether the lessons have been learned or are we again on an abyss?
The characters in the film are played by some of the main actors in Israeli cinema: Shuli Rand, Zeev Revach, Moni Moshonov, Amos Tamam, Yael Abkasis, Yigal Naor, Uriah Haik and Rita Shukron. The film has won four Ophir Awards for 2021: the Editing Award, the Artistic Design Award, the Original Music Award and the Soundtrack Award.
“Legend of Destruction” will be broadcast on Sunday, February 20, at 9:15 p.m.HOT8.
The film was produced by “Why Productions” Wadi King with the assistance of the Joshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts – Cinema Project; Yaki Donitz Productions; The Jerusalem Film Development Authority’s Film and Television Project; The Gesher Foundation for Multicultural Cinema, and the Avi Chai Maimonides Foundation; 8HOT; ‘Here’ is the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation; Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts; With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports – Director of Culture The Israeli Film Council.