Word: opatoshu
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...even though competent historians, in determining who started the civil war, refuse to excuse either side, the film unequivocally blames the Arabs, absolutely absolves the Jews. Then, in chauvinistic frenzy, the picture goes on to sanctify the Jewish terror. Among the principal heroes: a saintly old assassin (David Opatoshu) attached somehow to a Coptic synagogue, a psychotic youth (Mineo) apparently restored to sanity by a regimen of mass murder. The kind of blind hatred that excuses the Jewish terror was also used to excuse the Nazi extermination camps...
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