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O Jerusalem
Directed by
Élie Chouraqui
R
2006
1h 41m
Drama
,
History
6.0
36%
60%
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A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the country of Israel is being created.
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Cast of O Jerusalem
JJ Feild
Bobby Goldman
Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Chahine
Maria Papas
Hadassah
Patrick Bruel
David Levin
Ian Holm
Ben Gurion
Cécile Cassel
Jane
Tom Conti
Sir Cunningham
Anatol Yusef
Major Tell
Dominic Jephcott
Major Stevens
Matthew Marsh
Sir Gordon
Daniel Lundh
Roni
Mel Raido
Jacob
Peter Polycarpou
Abdel Khader
Tovah Feldshuh
Golda Meir
Shirel
Yael
Mhairi Steenbock
Cathy
Rafi Tabor
Ehud Avriel
René Zagger
Golan
Jamie Harding
Amin Chahine
Daniel Benzenou
Daoud
Élie Chouraqui
Isaac Roth
O Jerusalem Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Tasha Robinson
The filmmakers split time between history and personal drama in ways that do full service to neither.
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
In trying to be sensitive to such a controversial issue, O Jerusalem glazes over important events settling for mediocrity while giving a history lesson more appropriate for high school.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
It's not easy to turn one of the most controversial events of the 20th century into a movie that makes your eyes roll, but O Jerusalem does this and worse.
Chicago Sun-Times
Nell Minow
Good intentions often make bad movies.
Boston Globe
Linda Matchan
It aspires to be an epic drama but suffers from an acute identity crisis: It can't decide if it wants to be history, drama, or a cry for peace in the Mideast.
Newsday
John Anderson
The performances are all good, and there's enough history in O Jerusalem to float a boat of refugees.
Bangitout.com
Jordan Hiller
I felt as though I could have gathered the same information about Israel's beginnings from a pamphlet, and saved myself the film's forthright baggage
EDGE Boston
Phil Hall
As a history lesson, the film is so elementary and silly that you'd half-expect to find Mr. Peabody and Sherman peeking around the Wailing Wall.
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
O Jerusalem is as overstated and expository as a historical pageant, from the drippy music to a sputtering, running gag involving funky old jalopies to clichd speeches and teary-eyed deaths and a final voice-over crying out for peace.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A hopeful and helpful movie that depicts the friendship between a Jew and an Arab that outlasts the winds of war and the culture of revenge and racial hatred surrounding them.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Such fictionalizations are the stuff of TV miniseries, and only serve to add confusion and melodrama to a history that, as Collins and Lapierre's book proves, hardly needs further dramatization.
Slant Magazine
Rob Humanick
Hammers away at its Arab/Jewish variation on the chicken-or-the-egg debate ad nauseam.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's hard to take the film seriously with [its] contrivances, including a hokey music score, dialogue designed solely to give us historical information.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Director Elie Chouraqui and co-writer Didier Lepecheur [fall] prey to a fatal evenhandedness that reduces a complex battle for the loveliest, most fought-over city in the world to a pile of heroic clichs.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
Even with its flaws, the film finds many moving moments as it surveys the ravages of a perpetually divided country.
The Jewish Advocate
Daniel M. Kimmel
The need to touch on pivotal events makes this at times seem like history's 'greatest hits,' although the personal stories provide a narrative thread tying it all together.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
In its struggle to present an unbiased portrait that balances Jewish and Palestinian viewpoints evenly, the film loses some narrative focus. Nevertheless, it presents a valuable history lesson that points out the dire effects of British occupation in the
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
It's no 'Exodus' but is a reasonably involving primer on the birth of Israel in 1948, specifically on the fighting for control of Jerusalem.
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