The Ancestral Sin (2017)
The story of Israel's "development towns" in a chilling documentary, as never told before: Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts reveal a method, an ideology and a cruel practice of law enforcement and decision makers behind the "population dispersal" policies in the first two decades of independence. The director's family, like others, was taken to Yeruham, a development town in the Negev desert. Their personal stories recount of the price immigrant-families pay and the price still paid by Israeli society, unwilling to deal head-on with those early years and forgotten towns.
Director: David Deri
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David Deri as Himself |
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Elisha Efrat as Self |
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Erez Tzfadia as Self |
| Writing | David Deri | Writer |
| Writing | Doron Galezer | Writer |
| Writing | Ruth Yuval | Writer |
| Production | David Deri | Producer |
| Production | Sagit Shalom | Producer |
| Sound | Jonathan Bar-Giora | Music |
| Editing | Yaniv Rize Sheffy | Editor |
| Sound | Nin Hazan | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Nin Hazan | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Dolev Raphaely | Sound Effects Editor |
| Production | Talia Aloni | Researcher |
| Production | Renen Yezersky | Researcher |
| Directing | David Deri | Director |
| Camera | Avner Shahaf | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Shay Pony | Director of Photography |