How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon

How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon

1997 · 62 min · ★ 7.1 · Documentary

On the verge of the election, the director Avi Mograbi aims to make a documentary on the most maligned Israeli politician, Arik Sharon. Against all his prediction, Mograbi discovers that Sharon is friendly and welcoming, completely different from the man who was thought to be...

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