By Leo Barraclough
Director Amos Gitai and cast walk the red carpet for drama premiere
International Features Editor
Variety has obtained access to the first clip from "Why War," written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai. The film, starring Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Micha Lescot and Jérôme Kircher, will have its world premiere on August 31 at the Venice Film Festival in an out-of-competition berth.
The film is inspired by correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud about how humanity can avoid war. It is also based on a work by Virginia Woolf, "Three Guineas," in which she explores relations of dominance in sexuality, to which an essay by Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Pain of Others," responds and speaks about the iconography of war.
