Amos Gitai presents Out of Competition Why War, focused on an exchange of letters which took place in the 30s between Einstein and Freud where they question each other why man in the course of his history has always chosen war as a solution to the contrasts and conflicts afflicting the world, triggering inevitably other conflicts in an inexorable and inexhaustible loop. Gitai gives us the opportunity of getting straight to the heart of questions that we all ask ourselves at a very high level of interlocution. Questions that unfortunately remain too often unanswered.
When the United Nations asked Einstein in 1932 to choose an intellectual to whom he could pose a single question, his choice fell on Freud. Their dialogue begins with two words, reflected in the title of the film Why War, which have shaped modern discourse on mass violence per...
