Chronicle of a Disappearance

Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996)

سجل اختفاء

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.

Data di uscita
1996-09-01
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (26)
Durata
1 h 28 min
Generi
Dramma
Regista
Elia Suleiman

Cast

Curiosità

Chronicle of a Disappearance is a 1996 drama film by Palestinian director and actor Elia Suleiman. Suleiman stars in the film along with his family members, his relatives, and other non-actors. Dhat Productions produced the film. The film features no real storyline or character arc. Suleiman plays himself returning to Israel and the West Bank after a long absence which is followed by a series of barely connected vignettes and sketches, which are intended to convey the feelings of restlessness and uncertainty from Palestinian statelessness.

Production

Elia Suleiman was born in 1960 in Nazareth in extreme poverty; an interviewer later compared his background to the drawings by the late Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali. He left school at sixteen both out of his opposition to the "structured and confined" nature of his education as well as his difficult socio-economic conditions, and he immigrated to New York to live there for several years.

Suleiman has said that Chronicle of a Disappearance is "a journey in search of what it means to be Palestinian." Suleiman told his own personal story in the film. In his production notes, Suleiman wrote that "My life makes me laugh... I am far from being courageous. I hate venturing.

The cast includes Elia Suleiman himself as well as Fuad Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman, Ula Tabari, James Daher, Juliet Mazzawi, Fawaz Eilemi, Leonid Alexeenko, and Iaha Mouhamad. Much of the cast are related to him. The company Dhat Productions produced the film along with assistance from the European Union Media Project Production Company, the Centre national de la cinématographie, the Fund for the Promotion of Israeli Quality Film, and the Independ…

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