The
shooting lasted only six tense days in June 1967, but the Six Day War
has never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this region
in the ensuing decades stems from those six fateful days. On its 40th
anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as
explosive as it was in 1967.
Written and directed by noted filmmaker Ilan Ziv (The Junction, Human
Weapon), Six Days in June chronicles the events of forty
years ago with a fresh historical perspective. Beginning with the buildup
for the war, and the political and military maneuvering of Israeli Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol and Egyptian President Jamal Adel Nasser, the film
takes us through the six days of fighting, the war with Jordan, the occupation
of the West Bank and the unification of Jerusalem.
Featuring stunning archival footage and first-hand accounts of the war
from both the Israeli and Arab soldiers who fought it, Six Days
in June explores how these events became the flashpoint in history
that reshaped the regional political landscape, destroyed old systems
and brought new forces to the surface. Rarely in modern times has so short
and localized a conflict had such profound global consequences.
A must–see film for all who aspire to understand the situation in
the Middle East and its impact on the world political stage, Six
Days in June weaves a complex tapestry and presents the viewer
with a fuller picture of the region in this critical moment of transition.
"In his well-balanced and lucidly contstructed documentary....Ilan
Ziv provides invaluable perspective and fresh insights while offering
an enlightening history lesson with the narrative momentum of an engrossing
drama."
-Variety
"This interesting new documentary manages to present a fairly
fresh and unbiased perspective on a controversial history that's been
analyzed time and again over the past 40 years. With interviews with
insiders and a number of key players, and a wealth of archival footage,
Ziv's gripping film is as tense as any Hollywood movie and filled with
a cast of larger-than-life personalities."
-TV Guide
"A rich primer on the origins of the Middle East’s enduring
tumult, Ilan Ziv’s intricate, propulsive explication of the 1967
Six Day War gives The Battle of Algiers a run for its money. Ziv exhibits
archival bravado with his assembly of news footage, slick but unobtrusive
reenactments and personal recollections."
- Time Out- New York
SIX DAYS IN JUNE
DIRECTED BY ILAN ZIV
PRODUCED BY INA FICHMAN (Instinct Films/Canada), ARIK BERNSTEIN (Alma
Films/Israel) AND LUC MARTIN-GOUSSET (Point du jour/France)
A
film by Ilan Ziv with Serge Gordey and Jon Kalina
Editors Alfonso Peccia Benjamin Duffield Director of Photography
Andrei Khabad Researcher Terri Foxman Journalist Jean-Francois
Lepine Original Music Vincent Stora Sound Mixer Christian
Marchand Writer Stephen Phizicky Narrator John Tarzwell
An
Instinct Films, Productions Point du jour, Alma Films production in co-production
with ARTE France, Societe Radio Canada and Channel 10-Israel. Produced
with the participation of WGBH Educational Foundation, RAI Educational,
SBS-TV Australia and RTBF with the financial support of the Government
of Quebec Tax Credit Program, Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit Program,
Centre National de la cinematographie, SODEC equity and the Rabinovitch
Foundation for the Arts
