''Hagiga Ba'Snuker'' (, ''lit.'' ''Party at the Snooker''; originally simply ''
Snooker
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'') is a 1975 classic
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
i
Bourekas film
Bourekas films () (named after bourekas) 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 melod ...
, achieving a
cult following
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among its fans. The
movie
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was directed by
Boaz Davidson
Boaz Davidson (, ; born 8 November 1943) is an Israeli film director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and studied film in London at London Film School.
Biography
Davidson was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to ...
and stars Israeli comedians
Ze'ev Revach
Ze'ev (Ze'evik) Nachum Revach (; 15 August 1940 – 18 January 2025) was an Israeli comedian, actor and filmmaker. His prolific acting career included many roles in film, TV, and theater.
Revach was a particularly prominent actor in the Boureka ...
,
Yehuda Barkan
Yehuda Barkan (; 29 March 1945 – 23 October 2020) was an Israeli actor, film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was noted for his appearance in Israeli comedy cult classics of the 1970s, and for producing and directing candid came ...
Yehuda Barkan
Yehuda Barkan (; 29 March 1945 – 23 October 2020) was an Israeli actor, film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was noted for his appearance in Israeli comedy cult classics of the 1970s, and for producing and directing candid came ...
– Gavriel (Gavri) Levi/Azriel Levi ()
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Ze'ev Revach
Ze'ev (Ze'evik) Nachum Revach (; 15 August 1940 – 18 January 2025) was an Israeli comedian, actor and filmmaker. His prolific acting career included many roles in film, TV, and theater.
Revach was a particularly prominent actor in the Boureka ...
– Hannukah ()
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Yosef Shiloach
Yosef Shiloach (; 9 July 1941 – 3 January 2011) was an Israeli actor.
Biography
Yosef Shiloach was born in Kurdistan to a Kurdish Jewish family. He immigrated to Israel at the age of nine.Nitza Shaul – Yona ()
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Tuvia Tzafir
Tuvia Tzafir (; born 31 December 1945) is an Israeli actor, comedian, television presenter and singer.
Biography
Tzafir was born in Tel Aviv as Tuvia Kozlowski. He grew up in a traditionalist home of Jewish immigrants from Poland who lived in ...
Arieh Elias
Arieh Elias (; 1 April 1921 – 7 May 2015) was an Israeli actor.
Biography
Arieh Elias was born in Baghdad. In 1941, he was the first Jew to be accepted to the drama faculty of Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts. Elias aliyah, immigrated to Manda ...
– Halfon ()
* – The contractor ()
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Talia Shapira
Talia Shapira (; 6 August 1946 – 24 January 1992) was an Israeli actress, singer, comedian and writer.
Biography
Shapira was born in Ramat Gan. Her father was an electrician and her mother was a painter who died of cancer when Shapira was 16 y ...
– Riki ()
*Music by
Matti Caspi
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His music's style is informed by classical music, Brazilian and Latin music, jazz, rock and ...
Plot
The story is about two
twin brothers
Twin Brothers is a Navajo Sandstone mountain in Zion National Park in Washington County, Utah, United States.
Description
Twin Brothers is situated immediately north of The East Temple, and immediately south of Mountain of the Sun, toweri ...
, Azriel and Gavriel (both played by
Yehuda Barkan
Yehuda Barkan (; 29 March 1945 – 23 October 2020) was an Israeli actor, film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was noted for his appearance in Israeli comedy cult classics of the 1970s, and for producing and directing candid came ...
and named after
archangels
Archangels () are the second lowest rank of angel in the Catholic hierarchy of angels, based on and put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 5th or 6th century in his book ''De Coelesti Hierarchia'' (''On the Celestial Hierarchy'') ...
) Azriel is a shy and religious
Jew
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who works in a fruit shop in
Jaffa
Jaffa (, ; , ), also called Japho, Joppa or Joppe in English, is an ancient Levantine Sea, Levantine port city which is part of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, located in its southern part. The city sits atop a naturally elevated outcrop on ...
snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and ...
bar
Bar or BAR may refer to:
Food and drink
* Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages
* Candy bar
** Chocolate bar
* Protein bar
Science and technology
* Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment
* Bar (tropical cyclone), a laye ...
. Gavriel and his friend Hanuka make easy money by swindling innocent people into
gambling
Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of Value (economics), value ("the stakes") on a Event (probability theory), random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy (ga ...
on snooker games. One day Gavriel is forced to renew contact with his brother, because he is in trouble with a
gangster
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who won the bet on a snooker game, and the only way to pay is by selling the family
estate
Estate or The Estate may refer to:
Law
* Estate (law), a term in common law for a person's property, entitlements and obligations
* Estates of the realm, a broad social category in the histories of certain countries.
** The Estates, representativ ...
which is co-owned by the two brothers.
See also
*
Charlie Ve'hetzi
''Charlie Ve'hetzi'' (a.k.a. - ''Charlie and a Half''; Hebrew צ'ארלי וחצי) is a 1974 Israeli comedy film by Boaz Davidson. It stars Israeli comedians Yehuda Barkan and Ze'ev Revach.
Plot
Charlie gets by through fleecing suckers with a ...