Forever Pure (2016)
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Country:
Israel
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Duration:
85 min
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Genre:
sport, drama
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Director:
Maya Zinshtein
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Producer:
Maya Zinshtein, Geoff Arbourne
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Cast:
Eli Cohen, Arcadi Gaydamak, Ariel Harush
About film
Beitar Jerusalem F.C. is the most popular and controversial football team in Israel, the only club in the Premier League that has never signed a contract with an Arab player. Mid-way through the 2012-13 season, a secret transfer deal by the owner, Russian-Israeli oligarch Arcadi Gaydamak, brought two Muslim players from Chechnya to the team. The deal caused the biggest scandal in the history of Israeli sports.
Rewards and nominations
- Jerusalem Film Festival 2016 (Israel) — The Van Leer Award for Best Director of a Documentary
- The Jewish Experience Awards 2016 (Israel) — The Haggiag Award for Best Editing
- RiverRun International Film Festival 2017 (USA) — Special Jury Prize
Director
38-year-old producer, director, and journalist of Russian origin. In 2016 she released her film Forever Pure, which has been four years in the making. Zinshtein was commissioned a story for an Israeli show about football players from Chechnya that became members of Beitar Jerusalem F.C., the most popular and controversial football team in Israel. It was the only club in the Premier League that has never signed a contract with an Arab player. The film about the team was released on Netflix in 2017, and in 1018 it won the Emmy Award.
Along with
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Speaker:
Alexander Kargin, Kirill Eykhfus, Andrey Eykhfus
Along with
- Category:
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Speaker:
Alexander Kargin, Kirill Eykhfus, Andrey Eykhfus
Trailer
Director
38-year-old producer, director, and journalist of Russian origin. In 2016 she released her film Forever Pure, which has been four years in the making. Zinshtein was commissioned a story for an Israeli show about football players from Chechnya that became members of Beitar Jerusalem F.C., the most popular and controversial football team in Israel. It was the only club in the Premier League that has never signed a contract with an Arab player. The film about the team was released on Netflix in 2017, and in 1018 it won the Emmy Award.
