Yolki Palki

Director Alexander Gentelev takes us on a personal journey to seek out fellow passengers from the flight which brought him to Israel in the early 1990?s . Through the stories of Russian immigrants living in Israel and outside of it – from a simple kibbutz in the valley to a lavish office atop a Moscow skyscraper – the image of the last great wave of Russian immigration is unfolded in all its facets. The complexity underlying the stereotypes attached to the Russian immigration, the difficulties, the achievements and the failures, are at the center of this film. The question of what it means to be Israeli and what chance an immigration of over a million people have of receiving the stamp of « Israeliness » has accompanied the director since his arrival in Israel.