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119 Bullets + Three
Yeud Levanon | Israel | 1996 | 62 min. | documentary video

This explosive political documentary addresses the historical conflict in Israel between religious and secular Jews since Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. The title refers to the number of bullets fired respectively by Baruch Goldstein in his 1994 massacre and Yigal Amir in his slaying in November 1995. Between these two horrendous acts, filmmakers Yeud Levanon and Amit Goren followed the fanatic ideologues in the Jewish settlements in the occupied territories of the West Bank as well as their enemies across the ideological divide.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Yeud Levanon
PRODUCED BY: Amit Goren and Yeud Levanon
CAMERA: Ofer Frant, Alon Bernstein, Amit Goren, Oded Kimche, Ron Zamir
EDITING: Tali Shenkar
SOUND: Chaim Feurer, Ricardo Levy
MUSIC: Doron Shenkar
SOUND DESIGN: Philippe Gozlan

Original language is Hebrew

American Premiere, 1996 Human Rights Watch Festival. Distributed by F For Film, Amit Goren, 16 Rue de L'Ancienne Forge, 27120, Fontaine-Sous-Jouy, France, Tel: 011-33-32-26-2539 Fax: 011-33-32-36-8649.

Yeud Levanon
Yeud Levanon served as a military correspondent in the Israeli Defense Forces Radio Network, Galei Tzahal from 1970-1974. In 1975, he was the United States correspondent for the Israeli daily newspaper, Yediot Achoronot as well as Galei Tzahal. Until the mid-1980's Levanon acted as senior news editor at Yediot Achoronot.

In 1976, Levanon directed his first feature, The Honey Connection, which predicted the rise of a militant Jewish underground movement. It won the Best Film Award in Israel and screened in numerous international festivals. Off the Air, his next feature, which he directed in 1980, focused on life inside an army radio station. The film was chosen Most Popular Feature in Israel that year and was released in Germany, Australia, France and Switzerland. In 1993, he directed The Boarding School, a coming-of-age story, which that was a great commercial success in Israel and was also released in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Australia.

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