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About The FilmTwenty years after his assassination, Yitzhak Rabin tells his own dramatic life story. Director Erez Laufer’s candid and sensitive documentary is an anniversary “autobiography” of sorts. Told entirely in Rabin’s own voice through a combination of rare archival footage, news interviews, home movies, and private letters, Rabin’s personal and professional drama unfolds before viewers’ eyes in ways heretofore unheard and unseen. Laufer gives audiences a front-row seat to Rabin’s life, from his childhood as the son of a labor leader through his brilliant diplomatic career to his tenure as prime minister and the horrific moment that brought his life to an untimely and devastating end. Rabin was a complex and contradictory character: honest, innocent, and timid, while also forceful, determined, and resilient. On the 20th anniversary of his death, we reflect on his legacy. Through this lens, we stand to learn as much about Israel’s present and future as its past. Winner of Best Documentary at the 2015 Haifa International Film Festival. Director BioErez Laufer’s award-winning film MIKE BRANT: LAISSE-MOI T'AIMER (2002) won an Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. Among his vast credits as an editor and director, Laufer worked on the Oscar®-nominated film THE WAR ROOM (1993), directed JIMMY HENDRIX: LIVE AT WOODSTOCK, and edited the provocative and highly regarded STARTUP.COM. This is Laufer’s second film at SJFF (THE DAMIEN DILEMMA, SJFF 2006) and his second as an editor (LADY KUL EL ARAB, SJFF 2009). He is one of Israel’s most prolific documentary filmmakers.
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