israeli television on a role t.v. drama series like i would offer for prisoners of war are not only internationally successful but they're also some of the most adapted on the market look into why the israelis have such an app for being for the t.v. . but first to picasso an artistic rebel who set new standards in so many forms and was so prolific that you can find multiple exhibitions of his work across europe at any given time for instance his early blue and rose periods currently showing in basil's witsel and but less well known are his later works when his focus was increasingly on one single woman and the museum in potsdam has the goods. was it her eyes. her nose her high cheekbones public picasso is believed to have painted his beloved wife shot clean more than any other model some four hundred times and

that's not even including the numerous portraits which are not named for her but whose features are clearly hers it wasn't you know she was of course his model and muse and lived out this role at his side in the last years of picasso's life jacqueline was really very close to her husband there are documents that also shows her clean was for a time a manager of picasso's work. as. shockley in was married to because so during the final creative phase of his life for a long time many of her portraits were only known through black and white photos of picasso studios because the works were in the family's possession jacqueline's daughter whose childhood portrait is also in the exhibition granted rare permission for them to be shown. for the curators in pots it's like having all their christmases come at once i don't believe in christmas but i do like hot chocolate

so it's like having the best hot chocolate and it's lots of fun and it's fantastic and it's also fantastic to do the research behind it the exhibition starts with the first portraits of shakin from one nine hundred fifty four shortly after the seventy two year old picasso met the twenty six year old and runs through to his final. at the end of his life after painting his many female portraits picasso began painting men again it was a very prolific face in his life. he's snubber one goal was always to create. as time was passing by and he was raiding his seventy's and eighty's and even no i.d.'s and he knew it. the clock was ticking. picasso the late work ends with a painting that was still in progress at the time of the artist's death it seems to depict two figures and visitors are left to imagine how picasso might have

completed. well it might be a tiny country with just over eight million inhabitants and yet israel is an absolute powerhouse of television production and most people have seen the emmy winning us series homeland starring claire danes. is adapted from the israeli original prisoners of war and meanwhile dozens of other hebrew language series have sold worldwide to the likes of h.b.o. amazon and netflix where their success borders on the phenomenal. so what is the secret to their edgy creativity when my colleague scott roxboro went to jerusalem to find out how the israelis make such high octane drama on a shoestring budget. israeli t.v. draws its inspiration from the frontline of political terror. and from the most personal

of family drama. you. see it. on the spittle of just. at the end will i in t.v. conference in jerusalem writers from around the world come to learn how to make drama the israeli way partly it's an attitude. israel is just don't seem to have time for niceties we just cut to the chase we say it like it is and therefore we're not afraid of really challenging subjects we're not politically correct in the positive sense so we're not offensive but we're also ready to tackle issues head on. as one of the country's top t.v. producers donna stern focuses on uniquely israeli stories so we'll do less of cop procedurals shows no hospital shows kind of you know americans do that better than

we can but we can tell stories that regularly resonate from here so post-traumatic stress disorder for example. we should see both to the mission of both of them to the. with their missions in the still sense than a sickness to. hit israeli series when heroes flaw i took on the taboo subject of traumatized soldiers from the war in lebanon. we thought that no one will want to speak about the fact that we have a lot of strong magic soldiers and it's was like unspeakable about and. loudness. us making about. this side of the story amazed us speaking the unspeakable and making it personal has become the secret to success in israeli t.v. the conflict and contradictions of israeli society are mind for the small screen. for writer karen ma good lete it was her experience as

a mother raising an autistic boy in a society that doesn't mention the a word this means. her series was an instant hit and the first foreign show to be remade by the b.b.c. the original aired just. before the israeli masquerade celebration of police. i went down to the street and i found about twelve costumes of the boy of the autistic boy with this yellow blazer he has in the headphones and i almost cried they said wow like every kid in israel not every but some kids in israel think it's really cool to be this it to stick boy and i think you can see a change in front of you and it's very exciting and that's where you see the power of television. the biggest myth in israeli t.v. right now it's a comedy about autistic adults amazon is remaking it for the us. facing taboos to make stories that matter is really t.v. showing the world the way. and scott rockstro has joined me in the

studio thanks for coming in scott's you're just back from jerusalem and the conference that's an incredible output of compelling series that we've been observing coming out of his relatives were background as to why they're so successful yeah i think israel is that they've taken all the disadvantages they have been a small country not having very much money and they've done it to their advantage so israel doesn't have any sound stages for example so all their shows they have to shoot on location and that gives the shows a real sense of real is a real sort of gritty realism and then because they don't have the money to spend on special effects they've got to focus on on character so israeli television writers spent a lot of time developing characters going really really deep in the in the plots and i think that is reflected i mean you can see that in a series. like like you know it's got a sense of authenticity because it comes directly from the character who created it

this is a show about israeli commandos who goes undercover in a palestinian terrorist group and the guy who created who's also the star of the show he was in one of those commando units so this is this is this is from the inside is incredibly authentic i think that's where the grade. friends of israel is here and it really lends so much more passion to what they're doing doesn't it and they're not afraid to tackle taboos about politics relations what about religion obviously topic yeah this may be the hot topic in israel and it's interesting when i was there the biggest trend that everyone is talking about is orthodox series series television series set in the ultra orthodox community in jerusalem and there's a whole bunch of them perhaps the most. successful is on netflix is she's a. it's a sort of romantic small little story it's about a man who's trying to find a young man is trying to find a wife. but he falls in love with a widow widower and she is viewed by the orthodox community as being damaged goods

we have a small clip we take a look. if you could be sure. someone should have. i don't know. i would one machine mushroom. in winter but i don't. see anything. because of the suit. the because who should do it so why was it to live with either of you to move. you to live you. didn't she should and you know this but you know that a minority but. my question is. that's another example is really serious writing what you know because i mean that series and all the other orthodox set shows in israel are written and created by people from the orthodox community so it's not a view from the outside it's really from with inside this very sort of hidden

hidden world community that most israelis don't they are only as they see it and the next there's the neighbors but they don't know they've never seen inside their window case and i have literally gobbled up some of these series but how are they being received in israel fatah for instance yeah i mean these are often controversial thought it was a very controversial show but israelis really like controversy and i think that's part of their success and i feel like on the spectrum which shows mentioned in the piece is about autistic adults trying to reintegrate in society and it doesn't pull punches but it really finds the finds the funny in these very delicate situations with a small clip from one of the characters autistic character who's going to his first job interview let's take a look. i don't what do you. want to. get money for the machine will do for those and. they're going to go to russia for duty. yeah and this showed

a real impact as after it aired the number of israeli businesses asking for autistic employees really skyrocketed so you can see a real direct impact of a t.v. show like this on a society it's almost as if television in israel is one of their top exports what would be your tip for the next hot one to watch because we've seen quite a selection here but yeah i mean with us which is on netflix now is a great show but there's a new show coming up called just for today which is about a criminals at a halfway house with trying to reintegrate society by the guy who created the show called in treatment which was very very successful almost a decade ago psychiatry psychiatrist exact it was a battle of the world this show's going to debut next month and i'm really excited in the first two episodes looks fantastic so that's that's just for today ok thank you very much. t.v. having an impact in israel definitely on social issues and and at the very very least to reflect thanks for bringing us that back story and that brings us to the

end of this edition of arts and culture but we will be back to morrow. more from scott ross perot and my cell phone from all of the team here in berlin thanks for watching. moving. the food. to.

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