Writing
Naftali Alter
Acting credits
7.5A man comes to town that lies on the northern border and intends to commit suicide. The townspeople rescue him, but later they discover he’s a well known poet, the kind whose death place can become a site of pilgrimage.
Saint Cohen
1975
6.0A modern-day children’s fairy tale that is also a parody of prank films which, in 1980s Israel, were a highly popular film genre. In the magical land of Bubble Gum where all children’s dreams are made, live two princesses: the kind-hearted Tzipi (Tsippi Shavit) and her wicked sister, Pitzi (Seffy Rivlin). Every year on 1 April (April Fools’ Day), the princesses’ birthday, the two hold a prank competition amongst themselves, with the winner getting to rule the land of Bubble Gum for one year. Rounding off Shavit and Rivlin’s adventure and prank fest is a talking robot and a group of children including one Natasha Braunstein – who will go on to become US actor Natasha Lyonne of Orange is the New Black and Russian Doll fame.
April Fool
1989
Behind the camera
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Mrs. vs. Miss
1985
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Mrs. vs. Miss
1985
8.0Sergio Konstanza, a swindler, owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky army reserve unit whose Sergeant is engaged to one of Mr. Hasson's Daughters.
Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer
1976
8.0Sergio Konstanza, a swindler, owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky army reserve unit whose Sergeant is engaged to one of Mr. Hasson's Daughters.
Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer
1976
7.0This comedy about the "sanity" of those in an asylum focuses on popular Israeli comic Seffi Rivlin, who plays a bank manager who discovers that the inmates of a mental institution are running a counterfeiting operation from the basement of their hospital. Actors exaggerate their portrayals of the patients, and the plot zooms off in several directions at once
Million Dollar Madness
1986
7.0This comedy about the "sanity" of those in an asylum focuses on popular Israeli comic Seffi Rivlin, who plays a bank manager who discovers that the inmates of a mental institution are running a counterfeiting operation from the basement of their hospital. Actors exaggerate their portrayals of the patients, and the plot zooms off in several directions at once
Million Dollar Madness
1986
7.5Armand is a part-time hairdresser, on the run from women who are exhausted of his womanizing habits; Ofra has just escaped marriage to an inarticulate bridegroom. They encounter one another at a rooming house, and by helping each other escape their untenable situations, Armand and Ofra grow closer, resulting in a whole new set of troubles in this madcap comedy from Israel.
Beautiful Troubles
1976