Guy Nattiv Talks ‘Golda’ Launch In Israel As Biopic Takes On Fresh Relevance Amid Judicial Reform Protests
deadline.comL.A.-based director Guy Nattiv is back in his native Israel with new film Golda starring Helen Mirren as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
The drama, focused on Meir’s controversial handling of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, opened the Jerusalem Film Festival on July 13, with Mirren squeezing in an appearance just hours before the SAG-AFTRA strike was declared.
The picture originally world premiered at the Berlinale in February, but for Nattiv the Israeli premiere is equally if not more momentous. “I’ve been waiting for this moment,” Nattiv tells Deadline in Jerusalem.
The director believes the film will chime with current debates in Israel on both its past and future. “It’s kind of an Israeli movie with an international swagger,” he says of the English-language production, starring a mixture of international and Israeli stars who also include Camille Cottin and Lior Ashkenazi. “It has another layer that I think non-Israelis don’t get.” Tel Aviv-based United King Films will release Golda in Israel on 50 to 60 copies on August 24, just six weeks shy of the 50th anniversary of the 19-day Yom Kippur War which began October 6, 1973.
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