'Death on the Nile' withdrawn from Tunisian cinemas over Israeli actress
'Death on the Nile' withdrawn from Tunisian cinemas over Israeli actress
The casting of Israeli actress Gal Gadot in the new film Death on the Nile has resulted in the new release being withdrawn from cinemas in Tunisia.
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Gal Gadot was previously a member of the Israeli army and supported the 2014 war in Gaza [Getty]
has withdrawn from cinemas a new Agatha Christie adaptation starring Israeli actress , following protests over "normalisation" with the Jewish state, officials said Wednesday.
British director Kenneth Branagh's , already banned in Kuwait and for the same reason, will no longer be shown in cinemas across the North African country, the ministry's press office said.
Movie theatres had been showing the film since February 9 but, following protests, the ministry and the visual arts authority had agreed to ban it, activists and Tunisian media said.
"The main actress in the film is Israeli, was trained in the (Israeli) army and supports the colonisation of Palestinian territory," said Kaouther Saida Chebbi, head of an anti-Zionist woman's movement.
Cinemas in Tunis confirmed to AFP that they would no longer show the film.
Gadot had in 2014 posted on Facebook in support of Israel's offensive against Gaza.
The war left 2,251 dead on the Palestinian side, the majority of them civilians, and 74 on the Israeli side, most of them soldiers.
Tunisia, which hosted the Palestinian Liberation Organization from 1982-1994, has a long history of backing the Palestinian cause.
In 2017 it banned Patty Jenkins' film "Wonder Woman", also starring Gadot.
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