‘Rabin: The Last Day‘, the Israeli film which depicts the real life murder of Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will have its world premiere at this year’s Venice International Film Festival. This year’s festival is scheduled from September 2nd – 12th and ‘Rabin: The Last Day‘ will be screened in the competition section of the event.

The recent news from the corner is regarding the selling of its International rights. Indie Sales, a Paris based company has bagged the International Sales rights of this movie.

‘Rabin: The Last Day‘ is directed by Amos Gitai. The film is basically an emotional drama, and it will finely depict the events which leads up to the murder of then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The movie will also showcase the events which happened post death which includes, the Shamgar Commission of Inquiry.

Amos Gitai is not a new name in the Venice International Film Festival. Five of his previous movies, Berlin-Yerushalaim (1989), Eden (2001), Alila (2003), Promised Land (2004) and Ana Arabia (2013) have been nominated for ‘Golden Lion’.

Gitai has written the script of this movie along with his regular partner, Marie-José Sanselme. The shooting of the movie was carried out in various parts of Israel which includes, Rabin Square and the settlement of Kedumim in the West Bank.

Amos Gitai considers ‘Rabin: The Last Day‘ as his most substantial project after the 2000 war drama ‘Kippur’.

United King, the distributor of the movie in Israel is planning to release this flick on October or early November. The distributors are planning to release the movie as a memoir to Rabin whose 20th Death anniversary is on November 04.