'66 Was a Good Year for Tourism-English version

"66 WAS A GOOD YEAR FOR TOURISM"
A film by Amit Goren
"Do you know why it wasn't worth it? Because my children are torn between two worlds. I am angry, really angry, because we've created this situation!". That's how my mother summarizes 25 years in America. In 1966, when I was nine years old, my parents emigrated from Israel to New York with my two brothers and I. In our home the issue of our immigration was a constant source of conflict between our parents and we were never quite sure whether we should embrace or reject our new country. Twenty five years later my brothers and I each define our personal and national identity in strikingly different terms. While travelling between my current home in Tel Aviv and my family's home in the USA, I find myself engaged in an emotional journey that raises questions about immigration and assimilation, identity and belonging, along a trail of one family's wandering - Alexandria, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and New York.
"The Wolgin Award" for Best Documentary, Jerusalem Film Festival 1992
"The Israeli Oscar" for Best Documentary 1992
Selected "Best Documentary" at "Das Kleine Fernsehspiel"- ZDF German Television 1992
"A treasure…A personal journey written with a sensitive and light touch, turning every
sentence into a gem."| Sueddeutsche Zeitung
"A funny, intimate study of family ties unraveled by the process of immigration…"
The London Times
"Artfully phtographed and constructed |The New York Times
"Fresh, clever and painful" |The Jerusalem Report
"A wonderful, heart warming, exceptionally sensitive film" |Yediot Achronot
Israel 1992 / 72 minutes / English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Screenplay, Production and Direction: Amit Goren
Camera: Eytan Harris
Editing: Tali Halter-Shenkar
Music: Yoav Goren
Sound Design: Ofer Webman
On-Line Editing: Adi Binyaminov
Produced on Commission for ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, Commissioning Editor Hans Kutnewsky, supported by Cinema Project - Yehoshua Rabinovitch Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts, The Israeli Film Center - The Ministry of Industry and Trade, The National Council for Culture and Art - The Ministry of Education and Culture and The Ministry for Absorption of Immigration.