Английская Википедия:Himmo, King of Jerusalem

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Himmo, King of Jerusalem (Hebrew: חימו מלך ירושלים, tr. Himmo Melech Yerushalaim) is a 1987 Israeli independent underground dramatic art film directed by Amos Guttman.

Plot

Adapted by Edna Mazia from an eponymous 1966 novel by Yoram Kaniuk, the film, set in an abandoned monastery-turned-clinic (the film was shot at the Monastery of the Cross), unfolds during the siege of Jerusalem in 1948. A young and beautiful volunteer nurse, Hamutal Horowitz (Alona Kimhi), is romantically drawn to the enigmatic Himmo Perach (Ofer Shikartsi), a mortally wounded and mutilated soldier and former charismatic philanderer who cannot speak (except when he asks to be shot, though nobody in the monastery has the courage to do so) or move as he had most of his limbs removed without anesthesia due to severe shortages. Jealousy amongst the other patients, all in love with Hamutal though receiving only professional care, soon begins to emerge.

The film, financed by the Шаблон:Ill and developed at Шаблон:Ill, stars inter alia Шаблон:Ill, Mika Rottenberg, Шаблон:Ill, Шаблон:Ill, Шаблон:Ill, Amos Lavi, Dov Navon, Шаблон:Ill, and Sivan Shavit and has cinematography by Шаблон:Ill, production by Enrique Rottenberg, and music by Шаблон:Ill (in addition to the 1946 song Шаблон:Ill, written by Haim Hefer and Шаблон:Ill, performed by Shoshana Damari).

Cast

• Icho Avital as Yoram
• Shay Capon as Aaron
• Amiram Gabriel as Frangi
• Alona Kimhi as Hamital
• Amos Lavi as Marcos
• Dov Navon as Assa
• Aliza Rosen as Clara
• Sivan Shavit as Ivria
• Yossi Graber as doctor
• Ada Valerie-Tal
• Ofer Shikartsi
• Avi Gilor

Reception

It was screened and won several prizes at the 1988 Toronto International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Haifa International Film Festival, and 1988 Chicago International Film Festival, despite being a commercial flop with only 21,000 tickets sold.

Journalist Meir Schnitzer dismissed the film for its "lack of plot" and "visual ugliness", and similar pontifications were voiced by other journalists such as Шаблон:Ill, who dismissed its "pretentiousness" and called it a stain on the Israeli film "industry", and Шаблон:Ill, who called it “miserable, tiring, heavy, a boring and slow film in which nothing happens” and complained that it utilized "too much dialogue and too little action".

Outside Israel, where the film was distributed by the National Center for Jewish Film, TV Guide also dismissed the "stagy, with a fair amount of speechmaking" approach. The film was released on DVD in Israel by Шаблон:Ill as part of a boxset containing the complete filmography of Guttman and an equivalent boxset was released in France by Шаблон:Ill. Several nowadays notable Israeli film people, such as Rony Gruber, Samuel Maoz, Shva Salhoov, and Шаблон:Ill started out as crew bit parts on this film.

Bibliography

• Шаблон:Ill. Шаблон:Cite book
• Himmo, King of Jerusalem. In: Шаблон:Cite book Reprinted in: Шаблон:Cite book

External links

• Шаблон:IMDb title
• Шаблон:AllMovie title