“Every big story is made of little stories,” a novice Egyptian newsreel director patiently explains to those who question his footage in the epic historical drama “Image of Victory.” It’s also a truism that pithily describes veteran Israeli helmer Avi Nesher’s engrossing 19th feature, which highlights young people during a dramatic time of history and brims with small episodes of courage, passion and humor.
Inspired by real events, the film provides a nuanced look at circumstances leading up to the June 1948 fighting at Kibbutz Nitzanim, viewed from both the Egyptian and Israeli perspectives. Its consideration of how storytelling and visual images can be weaponized makes it a tale with great resonance for these times. Now streaming on Netflix, it marks Israel’s most expensive production, and the rousing result indicates that it was money well spent.
By bookending the narrative with scenes set in Cairo in 1979, as Egypt...
Inspired by real events, the film provides a nuanced look at circumstances leading up to the June 1948 fighting at Kibbutz Nitzanim, viewed from both the Egyptian and Israeli perspectives. Its consideration of how storytelling and visual images can be weaponized makes it a tale with great resonance for these times. Now streaming on Netflix, it marks Israel’s most expensive production, and the rousing result indicates that it was money well spent.
By bookending the narrative with scenes set in Cairo in 1979, as Egypt...
- 7/15/2022
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: A+E Studios/Ananey Studios’ supernatural thriller series The Malevolent Bride has set cast and commenced production in Israel, with Valley of Tears’ Tom Avni and Her Dance’s Lioz Levy playing the leads.
The show from Our Boys creator and Fauda writer Noah Stollman will air on Israel’s Kan 11 later this year, with A+E taking distribution rights in the rest of the world. The Malevolent Bride is the first co-production between A+E and Israeli studio Ananey.
Joining Avni and Levy are Maya Wertheimer (Shababnikim), Hisham Suliman (Fauda), Dar Zuzovsky (The Greenhouse), Esti Zakheim (The Commune), Shai Avivi (Pillars of Smoke), Lir Katz (Shababnikim), Adi Gilat (The Arbitrator) and Elisha Banai (Fullmoon).
The eight-part modern supernatural thriller, which commences production this week, follows the hunt for a vengeful spirit terrorizing an unsuspecting Hasidic community in present-day Jerusalem. A pair of unlikely demon-hunters – Hasidic psychologist Malki Price...
The show from Our Boys creator and Fauda writer Noah Stollman will air on Israel’s Kan 11 later this year, with A+E taking distribution rights in the rest of the world. The Malevolent Bride is the first co-production between A+E and Israeli studio Ananey.
Joining Avni and Levy are Maya Wertheimer (Shababnikim), Hisham Suliman (Fauda), Dar Zuzovsky (The Greenhouse), Esti Zakheim (The Commune), Shai Avivi (Pillars of Smoke), Lir Katz (Shababnikim), Adi Gilat (The Arbitrator) and Elisha Banai (Fullmoon).
The eight-part modern supernatural thriller, which commences production this week, follows the hunt for a vengeful spirit terrorizing an unsuspecting Hasidic community in present-day Jerusalem. A pair of unlikely demon-hunters – Hasidic psychologist Malki Price...
- 1/5/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Past Life (original title Ha-Khata’im, “The Sin”) Director: Avi Nesher Written by: Avi Nesher Cast: Nelly Tagar, Joy Rieger, Evgenia Dodina, Doron Tavory, Tom Avni, Rafael Stachowiak, Muli Schulman, Katarzyna Gniewkowska That films revolving around the Holocaust continue to be made—good ones at that—is a sign that the tragedy ranks as among the most revealing […]
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- 3/29/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
It’s 1977 and you’re the lead soprano in your first international concert. Rapturous applause and a flawless performance later you find yourself hobnobbing with classmates and audience members alike, the famed German composer Thomas Zielinski (Rafael Stachowiak) even enters to the crowd’s delight. But rather than let the electricity of the moment overwhelm you and bask in the glory of a successful evening, you can’t help noticing an older woman walking towards you with a scowl on her face. She asks your name, inquires whether your father is Dr. Baruch Milch (Doron Tavory), and subsequently grabs your arm while screaming in German about meeting the daughter of a murderer. Your name is Sephi Milch (Joy Rieger) and everything you’ve known about your parents is about to change.
You cannot deny the intrigue in what Avi Nesher has crafted with Past Life, a Holocaust film that takes...
You cannot deny the intrigue in what Avi Nesher has crafted with Past Life, a Holocaust film that takes...
- 9/12/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Strictly kid fare, this family comedy from Israel concerns a nerdy, spacey 10-year-old boy who, following a mishap with bank robbers, emerges from a concussion endowed with super intelligence. At first he and the world believe it's a miracle, but the audience knows different and certainly can anticipate the wholesome lessons to be learned about life.
A selection at last month's 15th Israel Film Festival (which heads to New York in late February), director Hanoch Rosen's "Super Boy" gets off to a mythic start, with Bible-studying Tom Tom Avni) casting himself as the young hero David facing off against the school bully as Goliath. With his would-be sweetheart by his side, Tom topples his foe but proves cowardly in real life -- ducking out of class regularly with well-timed onslaughts of stomach cramps.
In a screwy chain of events, he's knocked flat and unconscious by two fleeing crooks. Tom's worried neighbor, a wild-haired amateur brainiac who has developed a drug that increases brain power, slips in the hospital one night and overdoses him with predictably dramatic results.
Developed to help the elderly with failing memories, the drug turns Tom into a genius and instant celebrity with an ego to match. The robbers, meanwhile, report to their crime-lord boss, who frets that Tom can identify them on the eve of his planned heist of $10 million in rare jewels.
But Tom's memory of the accident is faulty, and he's easily lured into helping the bad guys with their "Mission: Impossible"-like scheme when it's presented to him as a challenging game to prove how smart he is. Tom pulls off the caper, but he soon learns the truth about his temporary powers and sets out to recover the jewels and rescue his fair lass held captive by the villain.
With lots of slapstick pratfalls and goofy goings-on, "Super Boy" is an amiable diversion thanks largely to Avni's spirited performance and Rosen's competent direction.
SUPER BOY
Tamir Family Entertainment
Credits: Director: Hanoch Rosen; Screenwriters: Hanoch Rosen, Amit Leor, Noa Arad-Brenner; Producers: Udl Izak, Hanoch Rosen; Director of photography: Avi Koren; Music: Uri Ophir. Cast: Tom Avni, Asher Tsarfari, Oded Teomi, Alon Dahan, Eran Shadar, Zofit Eliashiv. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 96 minutes. Color/stereo.
A selection at last month's 15th Israel Film Festival (which heads to New York in late February), director Hanoch Rosen's "Super Boy" gets off to a mythic start, with Bible-studying Tom Tom Avni) casting himself as the young hero David facing off against the school bully as Goliath. With his would-be sweetheart by his side, Tom topples his foe but proves cowardly in real life -- ducking out of class regularly with well-timed onslaughts of stomach cramps.
In a screwy chain of events, he's knocked flat and unconscious by two fleeing crooks. Tom's worried neighbor, a wild-haired amateur brainiac who has developed a drug that increases brain power, slips in the hospital one night and overdoses him with predictably dramatic results.
Developed to help the elderly with failing memories, the drug turns Tom into a genius and instant celebrity with an ego to match. The robbers, meanwhile, report to their crime-lord boss, who frets that Tom can identify them on the eve of his planned heist of $10 million in rare jewels.
But Tom's memory of the accident is faulty, and he's easily lured into helping the bad guys with their "Mission: Impossible"-like scheme when it's presented to him as a challenging game to prove how smart he is. Tom pulls off the caper, but he soon learns the truth about his temporary powers and sets out to recover the jewels and rescue his fair lass held captive by the villain.
With lots of slapstick pratfalls and goofy goings-on, "Super Boy" is an amiable diversion thanks largely to Avni's spirited performance and Rosen's competent direction.
SUPER BOY
Tamir Family Entertainment
Credits: Director: Hanoch Rosen; Screenwriters: Hanoch Rosen, Amit Leor, Noa Arad-Brenner; Producers: Udl Izak, Hanoch Rosen; Director of photography: Avi Koren; Music: Uri Ophir. Cast: Tom Avni, Asher Tsarfari, Oded Teomi, Alon Dahan, Eran Shadar, Zofit Eliashiv. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 96 minutes. Color/stereo.
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