''Incitement'' ( he, ימים נוראים, lit=Terrible Days) is a 2019 Israeli
thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...
directed by
Yaron Zilberman
Yaron Zilberman ( he, ירון זילברמן; born October 2, 1966) is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and producer.
Career
Zilberman directed, co-wrote and produced ''A Late Quartet'' which starred Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christop ...
. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the
2019 Toronto International Film Festival
The 44th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 September 2019. The opening gala was the documentary film '' Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band'', directed by Daniel Roher, and the festival closed with a ...
. The film was written by
Ron Leshem
Ron Leshem ( he, רון לשם; born December 20, 1976), is an Israeli-American television writer and producer, best known for serving as executive producer on HBO's '' Euphoria'', and for the film '' Beaufort'', which was nominated for the Acade ...
alongside Zilberman, and Yair Hizmi. At the film's world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the screening was halted and the audience had to evacuate because of a security threat. The screening resumed when the cinema showing the film was determined to be safe.
It received the 2019
Ophir Award
The Ophir Awards ( he, פרס אופיר), colloquially known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. The award, named ...
for Best Picture and was selected as the Israeli entry for the
Best International Feature Film at the
92nd Academy Awards
The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 ...
.
Plot
A profile of
Yigal Amir
Yigal Amir ( he, יגאל עמיר; born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli right-wing extremist who assassinated former Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. At the time of the assassination he was a law student at Bar-Ilan University. The assas ...
in the year leading up to his
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the fifth prime minister of Israel, took place on 4 November 1995 (12 Marcheshvan 5756 on the Hebrew calendar) at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in ...
.
Cast
* Yehuda Nahari Halevi as
Yigal Amir
Yigal Amir ( he, יגאל עמיר; born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli right-wing extremist who assassinated former Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. At the time of the assassination he was a law student at Bar-Ilan University. The assas ...
* Amitai Yaish as Shlomo Amir
* Anat Ravnitzki as Geula Amir
* Yoav Levi as
Hagai Amir
*
Daniella Kertesz
Daniella Kertesz ( he, דניאלה קרטס; born ) is an Israeli actress. She played Segen in the film ''World War Z'', and starred as Onie in the psychological thriller film '' AfterDeath''. She played a starring role as Racheli Warburg in S ...
as Nava
* Sivan Mast as Margalit Har-Shefi
* Dolev Ohana as Dror Adani
See also
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References
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2019 films
2019 thriller films
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Films about assassinations
2010s Hebrew-language films
Israeli thriller films
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