579 A Woman Called Golda

First  viewed  :  November  1982

I  only  dipped  into this  two-part  mini-series ( probably  the  second  episode )  dramatising  the  life  of  the  former  Israeli  Prime  Minister.

It's  notable  for  featuring  the  last  screen  performance  ( and  her  first  in  four  years  )  of  non-Jewish  Hollywood  legend,  Ingrid  Bergman,  who  had  died  of  cancer  a  few  months  before  it  was  broadcast. She  played  the  older  Golda  ( Judy  Davis  was  her  younger  self ). The  producers  were  unable  to  insure  their  stricken  star  and  at  times  it  looked  like  the  project  might  go  unfinished  as  Bergman  was  often  too  ill  to  shoot   but  it  was  completed. Bergman  won  a  posthumous  Emmy  and  Golden  Globe  for  her  work.