A Film by Dan Geva (Israel, 1994, 60 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English subtitles)
Every year the Nak-Nek, a remote Alaskan village with 500 residents, is visited by some 5,000 fishermen from every part of the U.S.A. They spend three weeks in approximately 1,850 fishing boats, trying to hook hundreds of millions of red salmon making their way from the open sea to the river in which they hatched, swimming thousands of miles.
This battlefield is the backdrop for the directors personal account of his seven years as a fisherman in Alaska. Through his letters home, a picture is gradually revealed of the Alaska hidden behind the enchanted picture-postcard image - the Alaska of man's battle against nature, of an eighteen-hour work day, the Alaska that is a personal voyage in search of family and home.
Jerusalem Film Festival