''Traduire'' is a 2011 French
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experimental
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documentary art film
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directed by
Nurith Aviv
Nurtih Aviv is a French film director and director of photography who was born 11 March 1945, in Tel Aviv (then in Mandatory Palestine).
Biography
Nurith Aviv has directed fourteen documentary films, and the topic of language is central to he ...
. It was released on
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by , as part of a boxset, also including ''
Misafa Lesafa'' (
2004
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Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
) and ''
Langue sacrée, langue parlée
''Langue sacrée, langue parlée'' ( he, לשון קודש שפת חול, tr. ''Leshon Kodesh Sfat Chol'', literally "Sacred Tongue, Profane Language") is a 2008 French independent underground experimental documentary art film directed by Nurit ...
'' (
2008
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).
Synopsis
The film, the third in a trilogy, containing ''
Misafa Lesafa'' (
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
) and ''
Langue sacrée, langue parlée
''Langue sacrée, langue parlée'' ( he, לשון קודש שפת חול, tr. ''Leshon Kodesh Sfat Chol'', literally "Sacred Tongue, Profane Language") is a 2008 French independent underground experimental documentary art film directed by Nurit ...
'' (
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
), contains conversations with translators of
Hebrew
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works into different languages. Among the interviewees are
Brest, France
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-based Sandrick Le Mague, who translates theological texts into
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,
Boston
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-based professor Angel Sáenz-Badillos, who translates medieval poetry into
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,
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-based
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novelist, screenwriter, and, journalist,
Ala Hlehel
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, who translates the plays of
Israeli
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playwright
Hanoch Levin
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into
Arabic
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,
Malakoff
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-based professor , who compiles a
Hebrew
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-
Yiddish
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dictionary,
Barcelona
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-based professor , who translates the contemporary
Israeli
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poet
Yehuda Amichai
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into
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,
Tel Aviv
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-based
Israeli
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poet,
Sivan Beskin, who translates the contemporary
Israeli
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poet
Leah Goldberg
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into
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and
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, and,
Berkeley, California
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-based professor
Chana Bloch
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, who translated into
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the works of contemporary Israeli poets
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai ( he, יהודה עמיחי; born Ludwig Pfeuffer 3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet and author, one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew in modern times.
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and
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Dahlia Ravikovitch ( he, דליה רביקוביץ'; November 17, 1936 – August 21, 2005) was an Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist.
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.
Reception
Critic
Jacques Mandelbaum
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opined that "Aviv films these encounters carefully, taking time to listen to each translator in the half-light of their offices, bringing surprisingly passionate ideas to the surface" and that the film "finds room in its erudite enterprise to explore sensibilities."
References
External links
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