Language
Hebrew, English and Polish
Subtitles
Hebrew & English
About
Marek Hłasko — writer, rebel, carouser — was hailed as the Polish James Dean for his looks and the Polish Boris Pasternak for the brilliance of his prose and his experience of exile. Fleeing the suffocating politics of 1950s Poland, he arrives in Israel—a land that becomes both inspiration and entrapment. Among new immigrants striving to build a new society, Hłasko struggles to survive. Unable to publish in Polish, he takes on physical labor. Forbidden from returning home, he drifts between defiance and despair, growing quietly attached to the people and the harsh beauty of the place.8th Day of Khamsin merges never-before-seen archival footage from the 1950s with present-day reflections—blurring eras into a hypnotic portrait of disillusionment.