What If?
Ehud Barak on War and Peace
Feature Documentary
Israel 2021
85 min
Hebrew, English Subtitles,
DCP
Details
What If?
Ehud Barak on War and Peace
Credits
Director: Ran Tal
Producers: Ayelet Kait, Amir Harel, Ran Tal
Editor: Nili Feller
Cinematographer: Giora Bejach
Research and artistic consulting: Shira Perry
Design and animation: Dovev Alperson,
Design Ninjas
Music: Haim Frank Ilfman
Sound Design and Nix: Aviv Aldema
Sound Recording: Tully Chen
Line Producer: Karin Etedgi
Synopsis
Can a leader succeed in influencing the world and shaping reality? Or is he, as any other human being, only a nutshell tossed to the waves of history; with no ability to affect it?
Tolstoy pondered this question in “War and Peace”. Ehud Barak, controversial former prime minister of Israel and a decorated commander on the battlefield, contemplates it in the film “What if? Ehud Barak on War and Peace”.
20 years after he was forced to resign from the premiership, Due to the failure of the Camp David 2000 conference, 78 years old Barak observes his own history and the history of the State of Israel, with disillusioned clarity, while trying to figure it all out - "What if?"
Festivals
World Premiere | Jerusalem Film Festival - 2020
International Premiere | Moscow International Film Festival, April 2021 | Documentary Competition
Asian Premiere | Golden Apricot International Film Festival Armenia, October 2021 | Main Competition
North American Premiere | Other Israel Film Festival, New York, November 2021
Geneva Jewish Film Festival, October 2021
UK Jewish Film Festival, November 2021
Australia Jewish International Film Festival, April 2022
Cambridge film festival 2021