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International Festival of Audiovisual Programs

Bagdad Bandstand

Tc'halri Bagdad

In the early fifties, during the major wave of emigration from Iraq, several musicians arrived in Israel - considered big stars in the Arab music world, they were nobodies in this new land. Later on, these musicians come to constitute the foundation of the Israeli Broadcasting Company's Arabic orchestra, a legendary ensemble that never broke out of the cultural ghetto it was relegated to from the start. After the orchestra disbanded in the eighties, the musicians were forgotten, as if they'd never existed. But before it was too late, they returned to the stage for a series of concerts for one generation that still remembered their greatness and another generation that has only just heard of them. Considered as enemy in the Arab world, considered as Arabs in their own country, to play their music was the most important to them.
Israel - 2002 - 1 h 10 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour
Réalisation
Eyal Halfon
Script
Eyal Halfon
Camera
Nili Azlan
Sound
Toly Hen, Gil Toren
Sets
Ayelet Ofer
Editing
Arik Lahav-Leibovitz
Music
The Band

Production
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