Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 (2025)

Name: Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: 2024-07-24
Duration: 3 hr 26 min
Rating: 90
Cast: Yasser Arafat, David Ben-Gurion, Abba Eban, Per-Åke Holmquist

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Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

NR 3 hr 26 minOct 10th, 2025History, Documentary

Archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson has assembled—from a vast catalogue of footage in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service SVT—accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists. Stories of the beginning of the Israeli state interwoven with the Palestinian struggle for independence. News coverage with Yasser Arafat and interviews with Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban during a visit to Sweden unseen since first broadcast. From the tenth anniversary of Israel’s founding to the First Intifada, perspectives and encounters with statesmen, civilians, revolutionaries, and intellectuals tell the story from myriad angles of an evolving media landscape, revivifying a history of the ongoing conflict.

StarringYasser ArafatDavid Ben-GurionAbba Eban

DirectorGöran Olsson

WriterGöran Olsson

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