Film

Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment

2012 · 1h 19m · Documentary

IMDb

6.6

Rotten Tomatoes

82%

Metacritic

67

Inventing Our Life examines the 100 year history of Israel's kibbutz movement, one of the world's longest running and most successful experiments in pure communism. Recreating its glorious past and chronicling its recent decline, Inventing Our Life focuses on the heartbreak and hope of the modern kibbutz, as a new generation struggles to insure its survival. Can a radically socialist institution survive a new market-driven reality with its ideological integrity intact? How will this affect the lives of the tens of thousands of people who still believe in the kibbutz experiment and continue to call it home? As the film progresses, the drama shifts from Can it survive? to Yes, but at what price?

• Toby Perl FreilichDirector

Release date

April 27, 2012

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 19m

Genres

Documentary