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(29,876 posts) Thu Feb 21, 2013, 01:04 PM Feb 2013

‘The Gatekeepers’: Israeli Intelligence Under Spotlight At The Oscars

By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:40 EST

Already under scrutiny over the Prisoner X affair, Israel’s all-powerful spy agencies have once again found themselves in the spotlight with the explosive Oscar-nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers”.

The film, which has been nominated for best documentary, is a French-Israeli production that sheds a harsh and unforgiving light on the operations of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency through the testimony of six of its former chiefs.

Made with unprecedented candour and a level of introspection which is quintessentially Israeli, it offers a rare glimpse into the world of an intelligence agency accused of being a past master at dirty work.

“This is an important film,” said Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy while reproaching its director Dror Moreh for “having made life a little too easy for these guys”.

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‘The Gatekeepers’: Israeli Intelligence Under Spotlight At The Oscars (Original Post) Purveyor Feb 2013 OP

Thanks! Scurrilous Feb 2013 #1

It has already won the U.S. film critics' award R. Daneel Olivaw Feb 2013 #2

Scurrilous

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1. Thanks!

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Thu Feb 21, 2013, 01:19 PM

Feb 2013

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R. Daneel Olivaw

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2. It has already won the U.S. film critics' award

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Thu Feb 21, 2013, 01:55 PM

Feb 2013

Israeli documentary 'The Gatekeepers' wins U.S. film critics' award

Israeli documentary "The Gatekeepers" was awarded the nonfiction, or documentary prize by the National Society of Film Critics in the U.S. on Saturday.

The film by director Dror Moreh features interviews with six former Shin Bet directors, who speak about their service and the leaders they served. Each one returns again and again to a central question: Can basic values of universal justice and democracy be upheld in the face of frequent threats against the State of Israel?

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