Helen Mirren will amaze the world once again with her acting skills in Golda, the upcoming biopic from Israelite director Guy Nattiv, set during the Yom Kippur War. The movie was presented back in February at the Berlin Film Festival, and now while anticipating its theatrical release on August 25, the first trailer is finally out:
The movie follows the life of Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel during one of the most one of the most important warlike conflicts from the second half of the past century, in which an alliance of several Arabic countries lead by Egypt and Syria fought against Israel. Being the first and, until today, only female political leader the country had, Meir had to deal with a lot, but the film focuses on the 19 days that the Yom Kippur War lasted, and how the Prime Minister defended her homeland, while the people around her doubted her ability to face such a complex and dangerous conflict.
Besides the Academy Award-winner actress, Golda has an impressive cast that includes Liev Schreiber as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Camille Cottin as Meir's assistant Lou Kaddar; Rami Hauberger as Defense Minister Moshe Dayan; Ohad Knoller as Ariel Sharon, Lior Ashkenazi as the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces David Elazar; and Dominic Mafham as Haim Bar-Lev, among many others.
Directed by Academy Award-winner Nattiv, the movie was written by Nicholas Martin (Florence Fosters Jenkins) and is distributed by Bleecker Street, company behind some other relevant titles such as The Lost City of Z, The Starling Girl, Captain Fantastic and Disobedience.
Helen Mirren's Amazing Career
This isn't the first time the English actress plays a real-life personality. For example, she has already given life to two different queens, Charlotte and Elizabeth II in The Madness of King George and 2006's The Queen. But throughout her long career, Mirren has proven to be an extremely versatile actress, going from theater to television to cinema without any effort.
Mirren has won an Oscar for her performance in The Queen, for which she also got a BAFTA, while she was also nominated three other times for her job in The Madness of King George, Gosford Park and The Last Station. She also starred in one of the greatest films of all time, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, and has also been part of some major franchises. She recently starred as one of the main villains in DC's Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and she's still part of the Fast and Furious saga, which she joined back in 2017's The Fate of the Furious.
In television, she got to play another acclaimed queen in the Catherine the Great miniseries, and she's currently part of the Yellowstone universe in 1923, a spinoff she stars in along with Harrison Ford. Mirren has also lent her voice for some animated projects like Netflix's Big Mouth or Monsters University, among some other great projects. Check out Mirren in Golda on August 25.