Golda focuses on the high-stakes decisions Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir made during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 when Egypt, Syria and Jordan launched a surprise attack on Israel on its holy day. It shows how her hostile all-male cabinet members were fighting among themselves and how Golda dealt with a war that threatened the very existence of Israel.
Golda is an American-British biographical drama film directed by Guy Nattiv from a screenplay by Nicholas Martin. It depicts the life of Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, particularly during the Yom Kippur War. Helen Mirren is former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in this first look for Guy Nattiv’s biopic Golda, which has shooted for six weeks in London and on location in Israel.
Who was Golda Meir?
Born in Kiev, then part of Russia (now in Ukraine), Golda emigrated to Milwaukee, America, as a child in 1906, fleeing the brutal pogroms against jews in ther homeland at the time. She became a teacher, then moved with her husband to a kibbutz in Palestine in 1921. She was a fervent Zionist and in 1948 she travelled to the US and raised $50,000,000 to purchase arms for the young country.
She eventually served as labour minister and foreign minister in the Israeli government before she became the first female prime minister of Israel in 1969. She headed up Israel’s Labour Party. By then she was 70 and the Jewish State was barely 20 years old. At the time a grandmother who was in poor health and wore orthopaedic shows was seen as an unlikely leader of a country that constantly found itself under threat but during her five-years in office, Golda emerged as a tough, resourceful personality who stamped her authority onto the country. She famously had to deal with the fallout of the massacre of Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics in 1972.
Golda met all the top world leaders, including US Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, as well as British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and The Queen. A year after the Yom Kippur War, Golda resigned her post and published her autobiography My Life(opens in new tab) in 1975. She died of lymphoma three years later in 1978, aged 80.
Golda (2023)
Directed by: Guy Nattiv
Starring: Helen Mirren, Camille Cottin, Rami Heuberger, Lior Ashkenazi, Dominic Mafham, Ellie Piercy, Ed Stoppard, Rotem Keinan, Dvir Benedek, Ben Caplan, Kit Rakusen, Emma Davies, Liev Schreiber
Screenplay by: Nicholas Martin
Production Design by: Arad Sawat
Cinematography by: Jasper Wolf
Film Editing by: Arik Lahav-Leibovich
Costume Design by: Sinéad Kidao
Set Decoration by: Celia De La Hey
Art Direction by: Andrew Munro, Boadicea Shouls, Andrea Stern, Jessica Johnson
Music by: Dascha Dauenhauer
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic material and pervasive smoking.
Distributed by: Bleecker Street
Release Date: August 25, 2023
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