O Jerusalem is a film directed by Elie Chouraqui and starring JJ Feild and Saïd Taghmaoui. It’s based on a novel of the same name, written by Elie Chouraqui and Didier Le Pêcheur. It was produced for US Distribution by Jeffrey Konvitz. In part of the film’s release, an official trailer has been given to us. If interested, you can download it here.

As mentioned, the film is based on a novel of the same name. The book is the result of five years of research by the authors, which also included several thousand interviews, and examination of a series of publicly available documents and relevant materials. These became the basic materials for presenting the story of the birth of the modern state of Israel.

Two Americans, one Jewish, the other Arab, are friends. As the United Nations votes for the creation of the state of Israel, both are pulled into conflict, their involvement taking them from New York City to Jerusalem, where they risk their lives for what they each believe in.

O Jerusalem! endeavors to present events from all the sides who were parties to the conflict and the events which are the subject matter of the book: the Jews, from the simple soldiers and rabbinical students to the commanders like Ben Gurion and Golda Meir; the Arabs; and the British.