The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored. Gideon Raff Read Quote
Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it’s just 18-year-old kids. Gideon Raff Read Quote
Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don’t want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey. Gideon Raff Read Quote
In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack. Gideon Raff Read Quote
When I tell my American counterparts that my budget was $200,000 per episode, they burst out laughing. To us that’s a big production, to them it’s a guerrilla shoot. Gideon Raff Read Quote
The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don’t know who’s coming back. Gideon Raff Read Quote
Israel’s a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated. Gideon Raff Read Quote
