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ha-Maḥtarot be-minheret ha-zeman = The underground in the tunnel of time / S.Y. Production ... [and others] ; written and directed by Benjamin Ohry.
המחתרות במנהרת הזמן סרטו של בני עורי.
LIBRA DVD 017 482
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jews.
- History.
- Political prisoners.
- Loḥame ḥerut Yiśraʼel.
- Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi.
- Political prisoners--Palestine.
- Jews--Palestine--History--1917-1948.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Motion pictures, Israeli.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (68 min.) : color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Underground in the tunnel of time
- Language Note:
- In Hebrew with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A story of personal strength and national dignity, this new documentary film reveals one of the best-kept secrets of the British Mandate. In 1944 251 Etzel and Lehi prisoners were exiled to Eritrea. The new State of Israel was yet to be born and a struggle was underway in British Mandatory Palestine. 60 years later the secret of how five of the gang leaders were able to escape their English captors in Africa and return to Israel is still a mystery. The Etzel and Lehi were pre-State militant groups who waged an armed struggle against the British who controlled the land. Five of the imprisoned group leaders went on to become leaders of the new Jewish State including Yitzhak Shamir, the former prime minister and Meir Shamgar, a president of the Israeli Supreme Court. Back to Eritrea is their story and the story of their British captors. The film will follow many of the original prisoners as they travel back to Eritrea with their families. In Asmara they search for their prison camp and for the tunnels that they dug as part of their escape plan and which have never been found till this day. The voyage to Eritrea is dramatic and intense and a rare encounter in London where the former prisoners meet British generals who oversaw them in the Eritrean camps, is powerful and affecting.--ruthfilms.com
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 674817289
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