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    Rabin in His Own Words

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    Yitzhak Rabin, the film's subject, was twice elected Prime Minister of Israel and was front and center in that country's development since its inception. The film covers him from childhood via family home movies 'til just before his assassination by a disgruntled citizen in 1995. The film was actually narrated entirely by Mr. Rabin, making it unusual in that the subject told his own life story practically up to the moment his life ended. A man of apparent good intelligence, for the majority of his working life he had been involved with the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) and eventually became Minister of Defense, the country's top military position.

    Director Erez Laufer does a fine job of putting together the pieces so that we see the growth of Rabin not only physically but intellectually. The film stays away from critiquing Rabin's successes or failures, focusing on the human being. Both introspective and analytical, his own words showed him to be a thoughtful man with no desire for verbal theatrics. He was a family man, introverted rather than outgoing and had a self-deprecating sense of humour. Initially a give-no-ground warrior, he ultimately believed that compromise was the only way to peace. In 1994 he received the Nobel Peace Prize in conjunction with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, and died less than a year later.

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