Directing

Nissim Dayan

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Lena poster
8.5

The story of a woman trying to free her husband from a Russian prison camp. She lives in Israel, organizes strikes, and gains public and press support. But her public life begins to clash with her private life as she falls in love with a Hebrew teacher. This causes tensions in her family and the Israeli Russian community. Her love for the teacher, desire to end her heroic public obligations, and live her own life compose her tragedy.

Lena

1980

No artwork available
NR

Two days before their wedding, Shmulik and Annat have a fight in the midst of a traffic jam when Annat decides to jump out of the car - straight into Mickey's car. The film depicts the relationship that forges between the two strangers, while they both know that time passes and the wedding is just around the corner.

פסק זמן

1983

Light Out of Nowhere poster
7.5

A sensitive teenager living in a poor Tel Aviv suburb grapples with a range of pressures in his neighborhood—both personal and social. Nissim Dayan on his film: “First and foremost, it’s important for me to emphasize that I’m a local patriot; I have no mixed feelings about Tel Aviv. I made this film in the neighborhood out of genuine love for it, for its people, and for what it symbolizes to me…” The film, considered a pioneer of Israeli political cinema, draws heavily on 1960s Italian cinema (Pazolini’s *Accattone*, for example), known as the second generation of Italian neorealism.

Light Out of Nowhere

1973

Farewell Baghdad poster
8.0

Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.

Farewell Baghdad

2014

Farewell Baghdad poster
8.0

Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.

Farewell Baghdad

2014

Farewell Baghdad poster
8.0

Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.

Farewell Baghdad

2014

No artwork available
NR

An elderly, delusional man sits in an empty shack. There, he recalls his lost love as a woman is thrown into the room before she is brutally assaulted and raped. The older man is pinned against the wall at knifepoint and is unable to help the woman. All he can do is watch the harrowing scene as it unfolds.

Man On The Edge

1971

No artwork available
NR

An elderly, delusional man sits in an empty shack. There, he recalls his lost love as a woman is thrown into the room before she is brutally assaulted and raped. The older man is pinned against the wall at knifepoint and is unable to help the woman. All he can do is watch the harrowing scene as it unfolds.

Man On The Edge

1971

The End of Milton Levy poster
9.0

The End of Milton Levy is a 1981 Israeli crime film, written and directed by Nissim Dayan, with Oshik Levy and Dov Glickman in the lead roles.

The End of Milton Levy

1981

The End of Milton Levy poster
9.0

The End of Milton Levy is a 1981 Israeli crime film, written and directed by Nissim Dayan, with Oshik Levy and Dov Glickman in the lead roles.

The End of Milton Levy

1981

The End of Milton Levy poster
9.0

The End of Milton Levy is a 1981 Israeli crime film, written and directed by Nissim Dayan, with Oshik Levy and Dov Glickman in the lead roles.

The End of Milton Levy

1981

On a Narrow Bridge poster
6.5

The story of an impossible love in the Occupied Territories between an Israeli officer and a Palestinian teacher, both torn apart by conflicting loyalties.

On a Narrow Bridge

1985

On a Narrow Bridge poster
6.5

The story of an impossible love in the Occupied Territories between an Israeli officer and a Palestinian teacher, both torn apart by conflicting loyalties.

On a Narrow Bridge

1985

No artwork available
7.0

Directed by Nissim Dayan.

Michel Ezra Safra and Sons

1983