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Bourekas Films
Bourekas films ( he, סרטי בורקס) were a genre of Israeli-made comic melodrama films popular in Israel in the 1960s and 1970s. History ''Haaretz'' film critic Uri Klein describes Bourekas films as a "peculiarly Israeli genre of comic melodramas or tearjerkers... based on ethnic stereotypes". They were "home-grown farces and melodramas that provided escapist entertainment during a tense period in Israeli history". The term is said to have been coined by the Israeli film director Boaz Davidson, the creator of several such films, as a play-on-words on the "Spaghetti Western" genre, known as such because that particular Western subgenre was produced in Italy. Bourekas are a popular food in Israeli cuisine. Although Bourekas films were some of the most successful in the box office, they typically received terrible reviews from critics. They were cited as "low-brow" and "vulgar", with great concern as to this genre of film representing the Israeli people abroad. In critiquing ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persia
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Side Girl
''West Side Girl'' ( he, נערת הפרברים, ''Na'arat Haparvarim'') is a 1979 Israeli drama film directed by George Ovadiah, and starring Ofra Haza, It sold 114,000 tickets in Israel. Plot Vered (Ofra Haza) is a beautiful blind girl who sells chocolates and cigarettes in the streets. Vered is a gifted singer. She meets three young men who become her friends and raise money for surgery to restore her sight. One of them steals the money, two of them get arrested and the third takes her to the hospital. Vered is able to see again. After her friends leave prison and search for her, they find her in a music performance in Jerusalem. Although she never saw them, she recognize them and is excited to see them.Amy Kornish and Costel Safirman, Israeli Film – A Reference Guide, Praeger, 2003, p. 152. Cast * Ofra Haza as Vered * Uri Selah as Avi * Menahem Einy as Chucho * Avner Dan as Susita * Ruth Bikel as Ruthie * Reuven Dayyan as Yechezkel See also * Bourekas film * Cinem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nurit (Movie)
Nurit ( he, נורית) is a 1972 Israeli drama film written, produced and directed by George Ovadiah. Amy Kornish and Costel Safirman, Israeli Film – A Reference Guide, Praeger, 2003, p. 107. Meir Schnitzer, Israeli Cinema: Facts/ Plots/ Directors / Opinions, Kinneret Publishing House, 1994. P. 131. It sold 702,000 tickets and is the 13th most watched Israeli film ever. Doron Fishler"The 100 most popular Israeli films ever" Fisheye, September 25, 2016 Plot Shoshana (Yona Elian), a rich young woman from Tiberias loves Moshe (Sasi Keshet), a poor truck driver from Tel Aviv. They intend to marry, but Nissim, her father (Jacques Cohen), forbids it. They intend to take advantage of Nissim's business trip to Argentina to fulfill their romantic wishes. But an unfortunate mishap happens when Shoshana hears on the radio that Moshe has been involved in an accident and she thinks he was killed. She travels to the Sea of Galilee wishing to commit suicide like her mother did years ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Cinema
Cinema of Turkey or Turkish cinema (also old known as ''Yeşilçam'' literally means ''The Green Pine'' in Turkish language), () or Türk sineması is the sobriquet that refers to the Turkish film art and industry. It is an important part of Turkish culture, and has flourished over the years, delivering entertainment to audiences in Turkey, Turkish expatriates across Europe, Balkans & Eastern Europe, also more recently prospering in the Arab world and to a lesser extent, the rest of the world. The first film exhibited in the Ottoman Empire was the Lumière Brothers' 1895 film, ''L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat'', which was shown in Istanbul in 1896. ''The Weavers'' (1905), by the Manaki brothers, was the first film made in the Ottoman Empire. The earliest surviving film made in what is present-day Turkey was a documentary entitled ''Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı'' (''Demolition of the Russian Monument at San Stefano''), directed by Fuat Uzkınay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ovadiah
George Ovadiah (; he, ג'ורג' עובדיה; fa, گرجی عبادیا; c. 1925 – 1996), also known as George Obadiah, was an Iraqi-born Israeli film director, scriptwriter and producer.Amy Kornish and Costel Safirman, Israeli Film – A Reference Guide, Praeger, 2003, p. 204-205. Biography George Ovadiah was born in c. 1925 in Baghdad, Iraq. He immigrated to Iran in 1949, where he became an established filmmaker. In Iran he directed 25 films and occasionally was an actor.Meir Schnitzer, Israeli Cinema: Facts/ Plots/ Directors / Opinions, Kinneret Publishing House, 1994. p. 385. In 1967 he made "Harbor of Love", an Israeli-Iranian coproduction. In 1969 he immigrated to Israel. Ovadiah directed 13 Israeli films, focused in melodrama and comedy genres, they were Bourekas film. Initially his films were box office successes, but his later films were failures. In 1996 the Israeli Film Academy paid a tribute to his memory. He died on 27 June 1996 in Holon, Israel. Filmogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Ve'hetzi
''Charlie Ve'hetzi'' (a.k.a. - ''Charlie and a Half''; Hebrew צ'ארלי וחצי) is a 1974 Israeli comedy. The movie was directed by Boaz Davidson and stars Israeli comedians Yehuda Barkan and Ze'ev Revach. Plot Charlie gets by through fleecing suckers with a three-card Monte. He passes himself off as a rich businessman. Miko is a street kid who spends his time with Charlie instead of going to school. His sister tries to raise him on her own, unsuccessfully. The plot follows Charlie's attempt to conquer the heart of Gila, a rich girl whose parents try to matchmake her to an American millionaire somewhat against her will. Cast * Yehuda Barkan – Charlie Ben Chanania * Ze'ev Revach – Sasson * Arieh Elias – Zaki Ben Chanania * – Flora Ben Chanania * Haya Katzir – Gila Zohar * Geula Nuni – Lili * Elisheva Michaeli – Mrs. Zohar * Natan Cogan – Chaim Zohar * Tuvia Tzafir – Robert * Moshe Ish-Kassit – Gedalia * Reuven Shefer – Car Salesman * Tikv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagiga B'Snuker
''Hagiga B'Snuker'' ( he, חגיגה בסנוקר, ''lit.'' ''Party at the Snooker''; originally simply ''Snooker'') is a 1975 Israeli cult film, one of the classic Bourekas films. The movie was directed by Boaz Davidson and stars Israeli comedians Ze'ev Revach, Yehuda Barkan and Yosef Shiloah. Cast *Yehuda Barkan – Gavriel (Gavri) Levi/Azriel Levi ( he, גבריאל\עזריאל) *Ze'ev Revach – Hannukah ( he, חנוכה) *Yosef Shiloach – Salvador ( he, סלבדור) *Nitza Shaul – Yona ( he, יונה) *Tuvia Tzafir – Mushon ( he, מושון) *Yaakov Banai – Rabbi Yosef Shemesh *Arieh Elias – Halfon ( he, חלפון) * – The contractor ( he, הקבלן) *Talia Shapira – Riki ( he, ריקי) *Music by Matti Caspi Plot The story is about two twin brothers, Azriel and Gavriel (both played by Yehuda Barkan). Azriel is a shy and religious Jew who works in a fruit shop in Jaffa. Gavriel is a hoodlum and hustler who runs a snooker Bar (establishment), bar. Gavrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ze'ev Revach
Ze'ev Nachum Revach ( he, זאב רווח; born 15 August 1940) is an Israeli comedian, film and theatre actor, and filmmaker. He has been one of the stars of the Israeli film genre known as Bourekas films. Israeli newspaper ''Haaretz'' described Revach's films as a "peculiarly Israeli genre of comic melodramas or tearjerkers... based on ethnic stereotypes that flourished n Israelin the 1960s and 1970s." Some of his films, notably ''Hasamba'', ''Hagiga B'Snuker'', and ''Charlie Ve'hetzi'' developed a local cult following. Early life Revach was born in Morocco, to a family of Moroccan Jewish descent. He immigrated with his family to Israel in 1948, at the age of eight. Revach served as a combat soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, prior to his acting career in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mendele Mocher Sforim
Mendele Mocher Sforim ( yi, , he, מנדלי מוכר ספרים, also known as Moykher, Sfarim; lit. "Mendele the book peddler"; January 2, 1836, Kapyl – December 8, 1917 .S. Odessa), born Sholem Yankev Abramovich ( yi, , russian: Соломон Моисеевич Абрамович, translit=Solomon Moiseyevich Abramovich) or S. J. Abramowitch, was a Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. Youth Mendele was born to a poor Lithuanian Jewish family in Kapyl in Minsk Governorate. His father, Chaim Moyshe Broyde, died shortly after Mendele's bar mitzvah. He studied in yeshiva in Slutsk and Vilna until he was 17; during this time he was a day-boarder under the system of '' Teg-essen'', barely scraping by, and often hungry. Mendele traveled extensively around Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania at the mercy of an abusive beggar named Avreml Khromoy (Russian for "Avreml the Lame"); Avreml would later become the source for the title characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Silberg
Joel Silberg ( he, יואל זילברג; March 30, 1927 – February 18, 2013) was a film, television and stage director and screenwriter in Israel and the United States. He made films in Israel including so-called Bourekas films. He then directed films in the U.S. during the 1980s, including ''Breakin' a''nd Lambada (1990 American film), ''Lambada''. Both have been described as exploitation films. In 2008 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Film Academy. Biography Silberg was born in Palestine (region), Palestine in 1927. He was the son of actor Ben Zion Silberg. He began his career directing at London's Old Vic theater. He co-wrote the Israeli musical film ''Kazablan (film), Kazablan'' (1974). ''Breakin was shot in Los Angeles and reflects a different style of break dancing and street dance culture than the Bronx, New York film ''Beat Street''. The film, directed by Sam Firstenberg, was a Cannon Films productions. Roger Ebert gave this film 1 1/2 stars, st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodrama
A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or excessively sentimental, rather than action. Characters are often flat, and written to fulfill stereotypes. Melodramas are typically set in the private sphere of the home, focusing on morality and family issues, love, and marriage, often with challenges from an outside source, such as a "temptress", a scoundrel, or an aristocratic villain. A melodrama on stage, filmed, or on television is usually accompanied by dramatic and suggestive music that offers cues to the audience of the drama being presented. In scholarly and historical musical contexts, ''melodramas'' are Victorian dramas in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action. The term is now also applied to stage performances without incidental music, novels, films, tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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