Shoshana

Drawing on real events, Shoshana is a romantic/political thriller set in 1930s/early 1940s Palestine. ‘Shoshana Borochov is the real-life figure cutting a dash through Tel Aviv high society in this exciting time of Jewish self-determination and utopian dreaming. She spends her days passionately debating politics at dockside cafes or dodging the bombs and bullets of the Zionist militant group Irgun. Her nights are reserved for conducting a dangerous love affair with a British intelligence officer, Tom Wilkin …Shoshana clearly defines its own purview, giving valuable insight into the variance of opinion within the era’s Zionist movement, while also highlighting the central role of a third player in this fraught and bloody history: British colonialism.’ Ellen Jones, Feb. 2024, The Guardian

 
Director Michael Winterbottom, featuring Irina Starshenbaum, Douglas Booth
UK 2023, 119 mins, English