Proving truth is stranger than fiction, nowhere truer than in espionage, this Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary tells the extraordinary tale...
Proving truth is stranger than fiction, nowhere truer than in espionage, this Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary tells the extraordinary tale of Mosab Hassan Yousef -oldest son of a founding Hamas member, turned double agent by the Israeli secret service.
"Based on Yousef’s memoir, Son of Hamas, The Green Prince is a story of two men, spy and handler, whom history insists must be adversaries. That they could reach a point of trust or friendship seems absurd. Embroidering a tangled web of intrigue, terror, and betrayal, Nadav Schirman builds superb tension throughout a surprisingly emotional journey. Ultimately, The Green Prince is less about political struggle than personal coming-to-terms with responsibility and moral duty." (Sundance Film Festival)
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"An extraordinarily engrossing tale becomes an extremely uncinematic experience."
Variety"The Israel-Palestine conflict is reduced to a crystalline, though still complicated, essence in Nadav Schirman’s alternately tedious and engrossing documentary."
Time Out"Sustains the tension of a well-executed thriller, achieved at the cost of a dispassionate objectivity."
The New York Times"A tense documentary... charts this agonising fall with both rigour and grace."
The Guardian"The Green Prince relates gripping events in a doggedly subdued manner, via direct-to-camera interviews and dramatic re-creations."
The Dissolve"Though it's set in the context of a highly combustible international situation, its emphasis is always on the personal, on these two men and what they came to mean to each other."
Los Angeles Times"Thriller-like documentary... Thankfully, the talking-head segments provide enough psychological insight to accompany the countless drone shots and menacing score."
Hollywood ReporterThe Green Prince | Details
Award winner- Audience Award winner (Word Cinema - Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2014
- Runtime
- 101
- Genre
- Documentary, Drama, Thriller
- Country of origin
- Germany, Israel, UK
