''I Like Mike'' is a 1961 Israeli
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by Canadian-born Peter Frye. It was entered into the
1961 Cannes Film Festival
The 14th Cannes Film Festival was held from 3 to 18 May 1961. The Palme d'Or went to the ''Une aussi longue absence'', directed by Henri Colpi and '' Viridiana'', directed by Luis Buñuel. The festival opened with '' Che gioia vivere'', directed ...
.
It was based on
Aharon Megged
Aharon Megged () (10 August 1920 – 23 March 2016) ( Hebrew year 5680) was an Israeli author and playwright. In 2003, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.
Biography
Aharon Greenberg (later Megged) was born in Włocławek, Poland. I ...
's play, which was performed at the
Habima
The Habima Theatre ( he, תיאטרון הבימה ''Te'atron HaBima'', lit. "The Stage Theatre") is the national theatre of Israel and one of the first Hebrew language theatres. It is located in Habima Square in the center of Tel Aviv.
History ...
theatre.
Plot
Yafa Arieli wants to marry her daughter, Tamara to Mike, a young American and son of a Texas tycoon visiting in Israel, but Tamara is in love with Micha, a
Nahal officer and a poor
kibbutznik. During his flight to Israel, Mike sees a newspaper picture of a
Yemenite soldier, falls in love with her, and swears to find her. Eventually, Mike finds the soldier, Nilli, who lives in a kibbutz in the
Negev
The Negev or Negeb (; he, הַנֶּגֶב, hanNegév; ar, ٱلنَّقَب, an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its sout ...
region, and he decides to become a Kibbutznik.
[Amy Kornish and Costel Safirman, Israeli Film – A Reference Guide, Praeger, 2003, p. 81.]
Cast
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Batya Lancet as the mother, Yafa Arieli
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Gideon Singer
Gideon Singer ( he, גדעון זינגר; June 29, 1926 – May 11, 2015) was an Israeli actor and singer.
Biography
Born in Brno, Singer emigrated with his family from Czechoslovakia to Israel in 1940 and he was a survivor of the Patria shipwr ...
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Ze'ev Berlinsky
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Ilana Rovina
Ilana Rovina ( he, אילנה רובינא; 10 February 1934 – 18 October 2020) was an Israeli singer.
Biography
Ilana Rovina was the daughter of Russian-born actress Hanna Rovina and Russian-born poet Alexander Penn, the child of an e ...
as the daughter, Tamar
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Meira Shor
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Seymour Gitin
Seymour Gitin (born 1936) is an American archaeologist specializing in ancient Israel, known for his excavations at Tel Miqne-Ekron. He was the director of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem from 1980 to 2014.
E ...
as Mike (Michael Abrahams), an American tourist
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Topol
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Geula Nuni
Geula Nuni ( he, גאולה נוני; June 9, 1942 – November 10, 2014) was an Israeli actress and singer.
Biography
Nuni was born in Ramat Gan in a family of three daughters to a Yemeni-Jewish father and an Austrian-Jewish mother. She made her ...
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Avner Hizkiyahu
In the Hebrew Bible, Abner ( he, אַבְנֵר ) was the cousin of King Saul and the commander-in-chief of his army. His name also appears as "Abiner son of Ner", where the longer form Abiner means "my father is Ner".
Biblical narrative
A ...
*
Eitan Gitin Eitan ( he, אֵיתָן) is the Hebrew source of the male given name Ethan, and roughly translates to "spiritual strength".
Eitan may also refer to:
People First name
* Eitan Avitsur (born 1941), Israeli composer
* Eitan Ben Eliyahu (born 1944 ...
*
Bernie Rachelle
Bernie may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Bernie, Missouri, a city
* Griffithsville, West Virginia, also called Bernie
People
* Bernie (given name)
** Bernie Sanders, United States senator and 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential candid ...
as Arik (with Topol)
References
External links
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1961 films
1961 drama films
Israeli black-and-white films
1960s Hebrew-language films
Israeli drama films
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