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New film follows Holocaust refugees-turned-soldiers
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Itay Tiran, Yiddish, Homeland 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for August 21, 2008.

Veteran Israeli actor Itay Tiran is starring in a new movie opening this week at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, in the language of his grandparents, Yiddish.

Beit Avi, or Homeland, tells the tale of two refugees from the Holocaust who find themselves posted on a remote desert hilltop during Israel's 1948 War of Independence.
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Filmmaker Dani Rosenberg wrote the movie in Hebrew, and then made the unusual decision to have the dialogue spoken in Yiddish, a feat that required he and Tiran spend months studying the language. For the filmmakers, filming in Yiddish gave the movie an air of realism they say it would've lacked otherwise.

The movie's Yiddish dialogue and treatment of the time passed the test of a serious critic, Rosenberg's grandmother.

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      1.   great news! 08:43  |  Daphna Silver 22/08/08
      2.   Yiddish 10:28  |  SWeis Melbourne 22/08/08
      3.   Should have shot it in black and white 11:26  |  Chanalau, Tova 22/08/08
      4.   The film has a political agenda 17:18  |  Yonatan 22/08/08
      5.   I`ll go see it 19:05  |  MichaelF 22/08/08
      6.   Quick- How can I get to see it? 19:28  |  bat yam 22/08/08
      7.   Come also study Yiddish with us! 23:40  |  noam 22/08/08
      8.   I remember Yiddish. 14:20  |  Petra 23/08/08
      9.   Chanalau Tova - always negative 16:31  |  ChanahS 23/08/08
      10.   Essen un Trennen darf men kennen. 18:09  |  Pinchas Polakov 23/08/08
      11.   Subtitled in English?? 20:40  |  Jay 23/08/08
      12.   Petra 20:51  |  Margie Http://theoli 23/08/08
      13.   " Should have shot it in black and white" Chanalau Tova`s comment 00:52  |  Mike 24/08/08
      14.   Mike 08:34  |  Ramius 24/08/08
      15.   War of what..? 15:14  |  ALGERIAN 24/08/08
      16.   to algerian 16:02  |  Rose 24/08/08
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