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Children of the Sun
Tracing Israel’s kibbutz movement, members of the Zionist elite move from their birth in the 1920s and 1930s to a crisis.
- Series
- Global Voices
- Premiere Date
- July 20, 2009
- Length
- 90 minutes
- Funding Initiative
- International
Director
Ran Tal
Director Ran Tal was born in 1963 in Israel to a farmer’s family and grew up on Kibbutz Beit Hashita. After finishing his military duty, he studied cinema and television at Tel Aviv University. Tal was creative director at several TV stations and since the mid-90s has been an independent documentary filmmaker whose work deals with the essence of Israeli… Show more
Producer
Amir Harel
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The Film
In the 1920s and 1930s, tens of thousands of children were born on an Israeli kibbutz and raised as part of a social experiment to create a new and improved human. The film traces these "Children of the Sun" from their birth through their growth as members of the Zionist elite, and to the crisis that weakened the kibbutz movement.
