Kedma

Kedma is a 2002 Israeli drama film directed by Amos Gitai, set in the final stages of the 1948 War of Independence. The film follows the fate of a group of Polish-, Russian-, and Yiddish-speaking refugees from the Holocaust who are illegally brought to Israel by the Palmach and drafted into the war. Characterized by long monologues from an Arab peasant and an emotionally demolished refugee, the film aims to provide a more realistic portrayal of the war than earlier films like Otto Preminger's Exodus.