Mark Kermode, Observer film critic 

Censored Voices review – a soul-searching secret history

Interviews with soldiers returning from Israel’s six-day war are revealed for the first time in this powerful documentary
  
  

A veteran listens to his 1967 interview
A veteran of the six-day war listens to his 1967 interview. Photograph: kNow Productions, One Man Show

Mor Loushy’s documentary revisits previously suppressed audio interviews with Israeli soldiers made in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 six-day war. Cutting between archive footage and new film of the interviewees listening silently to their testimony, Loushy reveals a soul-searching history of disillusionment, self-doubt and raw regret. The spectre of the Holocaust is invoked by soldiers openly wondering whether their own cause has not become monstrous, while news reports from a Palestinian refugee camp prophetically declare that “the only thing growing here is revenge”.

Watch the trailer for Censored Voices.
 

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