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1984

Saturday, October 24, 2026

20:30–22:20

Jerusalem Cinematheque

₪43

George Orwell's landmark novel, written right after World War II, is a menacing portrait of a totalitarian society whose control goes beyond speech and penetrates thought itself. Orwell invented a series of concepts that redefined the relationship between the state and the citizen: "Big Brother", the "Ministry of Truth", "Newspeak" and more. Michael Radford faithfully adapted the novel, and the result is a correct drama whose main strength lies in how it depicts the power of the state to tame its subjects and neuter their emotions. Eight decades after the novel was published and four since it was adapted for the screen, it is still a relevant work whose grasp of reality reads as if it were being written at this very moment.

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