Moshé Mizrahi (; 5 September 1931 – 3 August 2018) was an Israeli

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Biography

He was born in Egypt, migrated to

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in 1946, and studied filmmaking in France in 1950. He directed the

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-winning 1977 film '' Madame Rosa'' starring

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. The film, which was about a former prostitute in Paris who survived Auschwitz, won the

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on behalf of France. He directed 14 films in both Israel and France, three of which were nominated for the

; '' I Love You Rosa'', '' The House on Chelouche Street'' and ''Madame Rosa'', with the last of these winning the award. In September 1994, he was honored by the Haifa Film Festival for his lifetime contribution to Israeli cinema. His landmark film '' Les Stances à Sophie'' went practically unseen until it was re-released in 2008 and its jazz soundtrack album of the same name (but lacking the accent) was profiled in ''

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'' by Alexander Geoffrey Frank. As of March 2009, Mizrahi was living in Tel Aviv, leading film-making workshop in

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's film school. His wife, Michal Bat-Adam, is a film director as well as an actress and played lead roles in several of Mizrahi's films. Today, she teaches acting classes at Tel Aviv University. He died of pneumonia on 3 August 2018, at the age of 86.

Partial filmography

*'' Les Stances à Sophie'' (''Sophie's Ways'', 1970) *'' The Customer of the Off Season'' (1970) *'' I Love You Rosa'' (''Ani Ohev Otach Rosa'', 1972) *''

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'' (1973) *'' The House on Chelouche Street'' (1973) *'' Rachel's Man'' (1975) *'' Madame Rosa'' (''La Vie devant soi'', 1977) *'' Une jeunesse'', based upon the novel of the same title by Patrick Modiano *' (''I Sent a Letter to my Love'') (1980) *'' War and Love'' (1985) *'' Every Time We Say Goodbye'' (1986)

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