Hanna K. Script

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Year:1983
Director:Costa-Gavras
Written by:Costa-Gavras (Writer), Franco Solinas (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.
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The Battle of Algiers

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Year:1966
Director:Gillo Pontecorvo
Written by:Gillo Pontecorvo (Writer), Franco Solinas (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.
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