---
title: 'Pourquoi Israël (1973)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Claude Lanzmann'
released: '1973-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 185
genres:
  - 'Documentary'
countries:
  - 'Israel'
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/pourquoi-israel-1973'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069115/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Pourquoi Israël (1973)

1973 · 185 min · Documentary · Israel, France, Italy


## Synopsis

Pourquoi Israël is a 1973 French documentary film by Claude Lanzmann in his directorial debut. Premiered just three days after the Yom Kippur War in Israel, it examines life in Israel 25 years after the birth of the state. Lanzmann spends time with, among others, German-Jewish émigrés, intellectuals, dock workers, police, prison inmates and the newly arrived, surveying life in the new homeland. The title is often incorrectly given as a question ; however, Lanzmann intended it as an answer or an explanation from a collection of viewpoints.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Claude Lanzmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-lanzmann)
- **Producer:** [Véra Belmont](https://cinepixo.com/people/vera-belmont)
- **Director of Photography:** [William Lubtchansky](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-lubtchansky)

## Cast

- [Gad Granach](https://cinepixo.com/people/gad-granach)

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