Gideon Raff Quotes

Gideon Raff — Israeli Producer

Gideon "Gidi" Raff is an Israeli film and television director, screenwriter and writer. He is best known for the award-winning 2010 Israeli television drama series Prisoners of War and its acclaimed US adaptation, Homeland... (wikipedia)

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.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

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.

The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

Gideon Raff Quotes

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