Daniel Syrkin

Directing

Daniel Syrkin

Born

1971-03-04 (55)

Place of birth

Moscow, Russia

Known for

Directing

Credits

5 titles

Daniel "Danny" Syrkin is an Israeli film and television director and screenwriter. He was born in Moscow to a Jewish family, but immigrated with his family to Israel as a baby residing in Jerusalem. Syrkin studied at the Tel-Aviv University's School of Cinema and started his professional career in the late 1990s.

Known for

The Gordin Cell poster
7.8

A married pair of former spies is forced to face their past when asked to surrender their son to Russian Intelligence to become a spy himself. Will he choose to betray his parents or his native country?

The Gordin Cell

2012

M.K. 22 poster
9.3

M.K. 22 is an Israeli animated sitcom, revolving around the adventures of soldiers in a fictional IDF military base hosting the so-called "Israeli doomsday weapon". The show was created for the cable channel Bip and debuted in March 2004, becoming the first prime time animated series in Israeli television, and was later rebroadcast partly censored on Channel 2. The show won the Israeli Television Academy Award for Best Comedy Series and is considered by many a milestone in the history of Israeli animation. Despite gaining popularity and critical acclaim, the negotiations for a second season seem to have failed, making the first 10-episode season the only one thus far.

M.K. 22

2004

Out of Sight poster
5.5

Ya'ara, a blind PhD candidate in Mathematics at Princeton University, hears of her cousin Talia's suicide. Ya'ara rushes back to Israel. They were best of friends and twin spirits. Talia saw for both of them, and was always the one who believed and led Ya'ara to believe, that in spite of her blindness, Ya'ara could see everything. Ya'ara joins Talia's family for the traditional 7-day mourning period and there, she discovers the secrets of Talia's life and embarks on an investigation trying to discover the reason that led Talia to commit suicide.

Out of Sight

2006

הללויה poster
8.0

When Israel is hosting the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest soldier Shuki knows it is his chance to ask his girlfriend's father for her hand. His commander, major Magen David, will do his best to prevent this from happening.

הללויה

2003

Douze Points poster
NR

A comedy-thriller created by mixing ISIS operatives, tough Mossad agents and a unique relationship between two young Muslim guys in the most rainbow-colored, song contest imaginable. Was previously a miniseries, now edited into a feature film for the festival circuit.

Douze Points

2019

Series credits

Behind the camera