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Summary
Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli lawyer, defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from nonviolent demonstrators to armed militants. As far as most Israelis are concerned, she defends the indefensible.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+15)
Critics 89Audiences 74GoodWatch 70
Tomatometer100%
Metascore77
Audience score75%
IMDb7.2
Running time
1 h 48 min
Longer than most documentaries, +12 min on the typical 96
typical 96108Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 8 countries
Released
2019
January 27, 2019
7 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
Hebrew
Original language
Also spoken
EnglishArabicMade in
- Canada
Israel- Switzerland
Directing · 2
- Philippe Bellaiche Director, Producer, Director of Photography
- Rachel Leah Jones Director, Screenplay, Producer, Sound
Writing · 1
- Erez Laufer Story Consultant
Production · 3
- Neil Tabatznik Executive Producer
- Joëlle Bertossa Producer
- Paul Cadieux Producer
Editing · 1
- Yaël Bitton Editor
Sound · 2
- Robert Marcel Lepage Original Music Composer
- Riccardo Studer Sound Mixer, Sound Designer
Art · 2
- Tal Kantor Art Direction
- Yoav Brill Art Direction
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