Eliyahu Rips: The Burning (2016)

ALL 05/04/2016 (en) Documentary 55 Min
  • Release
    05/04/2016
  • Production
    Film Angels Studio
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Degošais
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was stopped and eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital for two years. Thanks to international pressure from the mathematical community in 1972 he was allowed to emigrate to Israel. Now he is considered one of the most brilliant mathematicians in the world. At the same time, for most people familiar with his name, Rips is first of all associated with the development of the so called Bible Code – a mathematical program allegedly helping to decipher hidden messages encoded in Torah – the Five Books of Moses. He is attacked by both the scientific and religious community, yet his research continues.

  1. Jānis Putniņš

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Andris Grants

    Editor



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Eliyahu Rips: The Burning (2016) 55 Min

ALL 05/04/2016 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 05/04/2016
  • Production
    Film Angels Studio
  • Original title Degošais
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was stopped and eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital for two years. Thanks to international pressure from the mathematical community in 1972 he was allowed to emigrate to Israel. Now he is considered one of the most brilliant mathematicians in the world. At the same time, for most people familiar with his name, Rips is first of all associated with the development of the so called Bible Code – a mathematical program allegedly helping to decipher hidden messages encoded in Torah – the Five Books of Moses. He is attacked by both the scientific and religious community, yet his research continues.

  1. Jānis Putniņš

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Andris Grants

    Editor

  4. Kaspars Rolšteins, Elīna Rode

    Producer