Unsettled Land
Unsettled Land Hebrew , lit. The Dreamers also known as Once We Were Dreamers is a 1987 Israeli drama directed by Uri Barbash.
In 1919, a group of idealistic Jewish pioneers from Europe, including Austrian doctor Anda Kelly McGillis and her Russian violinist lover Marcus John Shea who was a former yeshiva student and became a fervent Labor Zionist after the murder of his family in a pogrom, arrive in Palestine and attempt to establish a kibbutz in the Galilee. Their dream ends up shattered as they attempt to cope with the hardships of the land, sexual and ideological tensions within the group, and hostile confrontations with their Arab neighbours. Finally, the film dramatizes their disappointment as they must come to terms with the gaps between their utopian vision and reality.As Miri Talmon has noted, the film makes a clear intergenerational connection between the pioneers and the shattering of the dream, which is the experience that the audience and the individual filmgoer faced at the end of the eighties. ........
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