It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl is the most recent production of Moriah Films, and it is an exploration of the life and times of Theodor Herzl, the founding father of the contemporary state of Israel. Theodor Herzl, an assimilated, Budapest-born Jew horrified by the Dreyfus trial in Paris and the anti-Semitism he saw spreading across Europe, takes on the task of trying to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine against all odds, as narrated by Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley and starring Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz as Theodor Herzl's voice. The film is starring Christoph Waltz, who won an Academy Award for his performance as Herzl Herzl created and led a worldwide political campaign over the course of eight years, which culminated in the foundation of the state of Israel 50 years later. Throughout the course of the film, Herzl meets with a slew of rulers and leaders, including King Constantine I of Constantinople, Prime Minister Joseph Stalin of Russia, a Sultan of Turkey, a Pope, and government ministers from Paris to Berlin, Vienna to Vilna, all in the pursuit of establishing a Jewish state.
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It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl is the most recent production of Moriah Films, and it is an exploration of the life and times of Theodor Herzl, the founding father of the contemporary state of Israel. Theodor Herzl, an assimilated, Budapest-born Jew horrified by the Dreyfus trial in Paris and the anti-Semitism he saw spreading across Europe, takes on the task of trying to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine against all odds, as narrated by Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley and starring Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz as Theodor Herzl's voice. The film is starring Christoph Waltz, who won an Academy Award for his performance as Herzl Herzl created and led a worldwide political campaign over the course of eight years, which culminated in the foundation of the state of Israel 50 years later. Throughout the course of the film, Herzl meets with a slew of rulers and leaders, including King Constantine I of Constantinople, Prime Minister Joseph Stalin of Russia, a Sultan of Turkey, a Pope, and government ministers from Paris to Berlin, Vienna to Vilna, all in the pursuit of establishing a Jewish state.
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