Pnina Feiler a Communist Nurse
Israel 2010
70 minutes
Pnina Feiler, 85 years old, is a compassionate nurse in the style of the Red Army and a revolutionary communist in the spirit of Che Guevara. The film is a contemporary journey devoid of nostalgia with an extreme, uncompromising woman, isolated in a war to change the new world that surrounds her. Pnina does everything with the fervor of a passionate girl, driven by a sense of duty and righteous anger, just as she learned in the Communist Youth Movement. She carries the message of revolution in demonstrations against government policies and the occupation of Palestinian territories. Every weekend she travels out from her kibbutz to voluntarily care for Palestinian patients in West Bank villages. And once a year, Pnina travels to Sweden, where her children, Dror and Yael, live. Dror, continuing the revolutionary path, has created an artistic installation in Stockholm, featuring a suicide bomber figurine surrounded by a sea of blood, a creation that sparked the anger of the Israeli ambassador. Yael, an academic, still feels the pain of her childhood in a harsh ideological communist family.
Pnina Feiler, a Communist Nurse, is a film about a woman whose dream world is crumbling around her. Her kibbutz, Yad Hannah, has abandoned the ideology, her children have left the country, capitalism is pushing socialism away, and wars are distancing the ideal of solidarity between nations. Yet, every morning, Pnina rises full of the spirit of battle and sets out on the road because she knows that in the end, the revolution will triumph.
