Israeli films - 1960s
Israeli films of the 60s
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- DirectorShlomo SurianoStarsArik EinsteinRonit KatzNurit Ne'emanA man from Tel Aviv falls in love with a Christian woman from Jaffa.
- DirectorEphraim KishonStarsTopolGeula NuniGila AlmagorThe sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history (until that time) is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsTopolGila AlmagorYossi Yadin
- DirectorUri ZoharStarsOded KotlerShai OshorovJudith SoléBased on a short story by Abraham B. Jehoshua, the movie follows Eli (Oded Kotler) taking care of an old girlfriend's child for three days. He wants him to get hurt, he worries about him. Will the child survive the three days? Will Eli?
- DirectorUri ZoharStarsYehoram GaonOded KotlerPier AngeliDuring the Six-Day War, an Israeli pilot, hoping to bring peace to his country, fly his plane towards Egypt to hopefully commiserate with Abdel Nasser. Shot down en route, he finds himself halfway between the Egyptian and Israeli armies.
- DirectorUri ZoharStarsUri ZoharAvraham HeffnerArik LavieA new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing business across the way. The two make a living by selling to each other. As there is nothing there, they decide to create a world out of their imagination. They build a cardboard film set, which slowly takes on real dimensions- the buildings turn to concrete, people come to audition for parts in the "film" (cinema 'verite' style, with Zohar mocking viciously the pretensions of the "actresses") and builders come to void apartment buildings (mocking the glorification of concrete and "heroic" settlement). In one sequence, Arab actors come and ask the filmmakers turn positive to negative, and they're given the role of pioneers who plow the land and sing Zionist songs. The imagined world of the filmmakers becomes so real eventually they lose sight of the thin line between fantasy and reality.
- DirectorYosef MilloStarsAssi DayanIris YotvatShraga FriedmanBased on the novel by Moshe Shamìr.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsAhuva GorenGila AlmagorGavri BanaiThe tragic story of a girl who has been promised to a wealthy aristocrat at the age of four. Horrified by her prospective husband, she runs away with her lover, but she is pursued by her father and brothers.
- DirectorGilberto TofanoStarsEran AgmonGila AlmagorYael AvivStory of a war-widow pressured by her friends to behave in the role of the heroic widow, and the journey she takes in a country of people under siege.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsBenny AmdurskiMordecai ArnonYa'ackov Ben-SiraDaliah sneaks into a cargo ship bound to Israel. The sailors will do anything to hide from the though captain her and catch her attention.
- DirectorZeev HavatzeletStarsGila AlmagorYossi BanaiNatan Cogan
- DirectorBaruch DienarStarsNinet DinarOded TeomiLeo FillerThe recreation of the establishment of a nineteenth century settlement in Eretz Yisrael by ten Russian Jews. They had to build the land and also contend with the Arab resentment and the Turkish military.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsLevana FinkelsteinOded TeomiAvner HizkiyahuA love story between two people from different cultures and the relatives who manage to separate them until the lovers again find each other.
- DirectorIlan EldadStarsYiftach SpectorEhud BanaiDina DoronA Bedouin woman hides an Israeli pilot from Egyptian soldiers. While the Egyptian soldiers torture her to get information, the Israeli soldiers rescue her.
- DirectorYosef ShalhinStarsArieh EliasShaul ShalhinHannah Shalhin
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsShmuel RodenskyBetty SegalNinet DinarRussia, 1905. Tevye is the only Jew living in the village of Antevka. He is very poor but things change when, as a token of gratitude for a service rendered, he is given a cow and some food. Now, his wife, his seven daughters and himself have access to a better life. Tevye sells his milk and his butter. He is now able to give his daughters a dowry and marry them. But you can't buy happiness. Indeed, Zeitel, the eldest sister, marries only a poor Jewish tailor. The second one weds a young revolutionary and follows him in exile. The third one, pregnant and abandoned by her lover, commits suicide. As for the fourth girl, she is repudiated by Tevye for marrying the son of the orthodox priest. However, Tevye still hopes the best for his three remaining daughters.Unfortunately, this the time of pogroms and one is organized in the village. And against whose house? Tevye's of course, as he is the only Jewish villager. Father, mother and their three daughters refuse to despair. They decide to flee Russia and to seek the Land of Milk and Honey promised by the Bible.
- DirectorMaurizio LucidiStarsFranco GiornelliAssi DayanLuigi CasellatoEight Israeli soldiers are sent on a mission to take control of an enemy missile base, but face a deadly counterattack.
- DirectorEllida GeiraStarsArieh EliasRina GanorRuth HarrisComposed of two short films. The first one "Spring" (26 minutes) is about a young couple falling in love. Almost dialogue free and shot in an experimental style. The second film "Fall" (46 minutes) is a more traditional comedic love story between a lonely old Jewish-German lady and a lonely old Iraqi Falafel seller.
- DirectorMicha ShagrirStarsIlli GorlitzkyLior YieniyZe'ev RevachIsraeli soldiers cross the border into hostile Arab territory to kidnap an enemy terrorist. After the man is captured, the Israeli unit receives warning of an enemy counter attack, and the unit is forced to trek through the desert on foot.
- DirectorEphraim KishonStarsTopolGila AlmagorAvner HizkiyahuA good-natured but incorrigible layabout becomes embroiled in a plot to rob the Israeli lottery, all the while indulging in his boundless zeal for mischief and romance.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsYa'ackov BanaiGeula GillRuth GolanA charming film about a group of children on a kibbutz in Israel who foil a plot by spies to blow up a Mirage jet during a military parade.
- DirectorKobi JaegerStarsMisha AsherovAlexander PelegGeula NuniFour stories related to the Six-Day War.
- DirectorUri ZoharStarsShaike OphirYisrael PoliakovShaike LeviThe story of a soccer team, respectable families, a corrupt night club owner, and a young lad to guide all to a happy ending.