To Shoot an Elephant (2009)

Name: To Shoot an Elephant
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-06-24T09:53:03+02:00
Rating: 3.5
Cast: Ewa Jasiewicz, Marwan Hamuda, Alberto Arce

Documentary | 112 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 112 minuten

Country: Spain

Directed by: Alberto Arce and Mohammad Rujailah

Starst: Ewa Jasiewicz and Marwan Hamuda

IMDb score: 7,8 (105)

Releasedate: 20 November 2009

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To Shoot an Elephant plot

Director Alberto Arce was embedded with the International Solidarity Movement, one of the few aid organizations still present in the area. In a series of vignettes filmed between December 25, 2008 and January 16, 2009, he depicts contemporary life in the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip, centering on the ambulance services plucking the wounded and dead (consistently referred to as "martyrs") from the streets. . At the risk of their own lives, because despite the Geneva conventions, the Israelis fire live ammunition.