Assi Dayan

Acting

Assi Dayan

Born — Died

1945-11-23 — 2014-05-01

Known for

Acting

Credits

82 titles

Known for

The Delta Force poster
6.0

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.

The Delta Force

1986

BeTipul poster
9.0

BeTipul is an Israeli television drama revolving around the personal and professional life of an Israeli psychologist, Reuven Dagan, played by Assi Dayan. The series portrays a psychologist who treats patients at his clinic five days a week and then seeks psychological treatment for himself. Filmmaker Ari Folman served as the head writer of the series.

BeTipul

2005

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn poster
5.6

After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

2014

Ugly Esti poster
10.0

Esti HaMekho'eret (Ugly Esti) is an Israeli television comedy-drama series starring Riki Blich. The series premiered on 3 July 2003 on Channel 2 in Israel and was created by Shlomo Moshiah. This series is based on the Mexican telenovela "El amor no es como lo pintan".

Ugly Esti

2003

Carmel poster
7.0

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Carmel

2009

The Uranium Conspiracy poster
5.5

Two Israeli agents uncover a ring of uranium smugglers. When Israeli agent Dan learns that an Austrian company has purchased a shipload of uranium for an Arab country, he calls in his colleague Renzo.

The Uranium Conspiracy

1978

Film credits

2000s · 15 titles

Carmel poster
7.0

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Carmel

2009

Return from India poster
4.3

This beautiful love story that start's in Israel and going through all scene's of India, it's cultural, beauty and religions traditions brings us to the question: "What is this love?"...

Return from India

2002

My Father My Lord poster
6.4

"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional gap between the impish child and the stern father. When the father's all-consuming obsession with observing religious ritual inadvertently leads to tragedy, his previously subservient wife rages against both her husband and God. A dramatic retelling of the story of Abraham.

My Father My Lord

2007

Only Dogs Run Free poster
7.0

A successful lawyer, who has traumatic memories from his army service, is testifying against his best friend from his unit. His wife, a social-worker, is trying to save a poor family named Siton. The couple's life collapses when the wife get raped by a gang.

Only Dogs Run Free

2007

Jellyfish poster
7.0

Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.

Jellyfish

2007

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

Love Life poster
4.5

A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.

Love Life

2007

Comrade poster
6.2

After discovering that his father has lied to him for years about his estranged sister and his mother, 14-year-old Ilan runs away from home and ends up living with his sister, Dalia, who works on a cruise ship and is having an affair with a married man. While Dalia is at work, Ilan explores her down-and-out neighborhood and discovers and befriends Avram, an elderly holdout Communist living in an abandoned building with his weapons cache and marijuana-growing business, biding his time for the ultimate battle against the capitalists.

Comrade

2006

A Matter of Reputation poster
NR

A well-known middle-aged director who reached the top of the world cinema, won an Oscar and is now a pathetic drinker who lives in a stale apartment at the expense of a young woman. A brilliant young pianist who in his youth expected him to climb to the top of world music and is now a dangerous and wanted criminal. A senior doctor in the hospital, a drug addict, who must wait patiently for surgery until his hands stop shaking. A young nurse whose parents, in which she nursed, abused her and lamented that she had to die in the place of her soldier brother. Everyone meets when a poor film producer arrives and invites the director out of the gutter and write a script for him. The film, as well as the screenplay written by the director, track these lost souls crossing each other's paths in the no-go paths in which they roam.

A Matter of Reputation

2001

No artwork available
6.0

A universal anti-religious satire which occurs in the latter of 2001 and deals with the life of God and his son Jesus. While Jesus is trained and sent to bring redemption, God is desperately seeking for the meaning of his only incomprehensible creation - Love.

The Gospel According to God

2004

Things Behind the Sun poster
5.8

Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own family: his wife, a long suppressed artist whose life's dream is fulfilled that same week; his twenty-seven-year-old son - a "philosopher" still living at home; and his twenty-five-year-old daughter - a tormented lesbian who has had no contact with her family for a long time. Itzhak doesn't realize, though, that his ten year old daughter, Didush, neglected and almost invisible to her family, is secretly visiting her grandfather whom she has never met previously and sets out to discover the old family secret.

Things Behind the Sun

2006

The Glow poster
10.0

Uriel Morag, a retired general with a glorious past that includes some less than glorious episodes, has, like many other army officers, graduated into an executive ministerial job. Self-important, overweight and - in his own mind - indispensable, he heads for the countryside with Mona, his latest bimbo, for a weekend away. But as he drives his BMW towards the village farm of two friends from his military past, he and his love are transported into a twisted Through The Looking Glass-style version of present day Israel.

The Glow

2001

Campfire poster
6.3

The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.

Campfire

2004

The Silence of the Sirens poster
6.5

The 10 days that came before the horrible 1973 Yom Kippur War.

The Silence of the Sirens

2003

Time of Favor poster
6.8

Is today's fanaticism tomorrow's policy? In a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Meltzer has a grand design: he's building a movement "to pray at the Temple Mount." His yeshiva has scholars, and the settlement is getting its own military company to be commanded by Menachem, a disciple of the rabbi. He also wants his daughter, Michal, to marry Pini, the yeshiva's best scholar. Michal has no interest in Pini, but she is attracted to Menachem. When she rebuffs Pini, he hatches a bold and secret plan. Is jealousy the motivation or something else? Meanwhile, the army and Moussad are closely watching the rabbi's activities and Menachem's military training. Who is trustworthy?

Time of Favor

2000

1990s · 6 titles

1980s · 5 titles

The Delta Force poster
6.0

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.

The Delta Force

1986

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick poster
6.0

Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

1988

Beyond the Walls poster
5.2

In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri's daughter and Issan's wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside.

Beyond the Walls

1984

When Night Falls poster
5.8

Giora (Assi Dayan) runs a bar and dreams of opening a restaurant. He has made a mess of his life — his marriage is in trouble, since he is pathologically cheating on his wife; his parents (Yosef Millo and Orna Porat) have separated; and his father arrives for an extended visit from Nahariya. Giora spends time with his army buddies, recalling their experiences during the War in Lebanon. His father is undergoing a major life crisis and finds both the loneliness of the city and his son's lifestyle unappealing. As a non-Jew in a Jewish society, he feels estranged, an outsider who has never been able to adapt, and contemplates suicide. Eventually, Giora's parents decide to attempt a reconciliation, until tragedy strikes.

When Night Falls

1985

The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Bad poster
8.5

The prisoner sentence to a very long time gets visitation home in order to meet his wife. The only problem is that he got a company - one of the prison guards.

The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Bad

1987

1970s · 8 titles

The Uranium Conspiracy poster
5.5

Two Israeli agents uncover a ring of uranium smugglers. When Israeli agent Dan learns that an Austrian company has purchased a shipload of uranium for an Arab country, he calls in his colleague Renzo.

The Uranium Conspiracy

1978

The Sell Out poster
5.5

This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.

The Sell Out

1976

Operation Thunderbolt poster
6.1

In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages.

Operation Thunderbolt

1977

Moments poster
5.4

Anne, a Parisian, visits her friend Yola in Tel Aviv, where Yola lives with her husband Avi and their son. There's tension in the air and the attraction between the two women is palpable. Flash back five years to their meeting, on a train to Jerusalem. Yola invites Anne to stay at her hotel, and over the next five days, their friendship builds from talk about their lives to an explosive menage a trois when Avi joins them on fourth day. Back in the present, can Yola have both Avi and Anne, or are the women futilely chasing rainbows?

Moments

1979

Fifty Fifty poster
7.5

In this Israeli comedy, the baker has half a winning lottery ticket, and his deceased partner has the other. In order to benefit from winning, somebody needs to put the two together. The baker searches stealthily for the missing half, so do the dead partner's son-in-law and a group of thieves who hear of this potential windfall. There is some slapstick as this group chases one or another of its member through the streets and shops of Tel-Aviv

Fifty Fifty

1971

Promise at Dawn poster
5.5

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.

Promise at Dawn

1970

Three in One poster
4.2

A man traumatized by war memories works as a tour guide on the sea. He starts a relationship with a young woman from the nearby hippie commune.

Three in One

1974

No artwork available
NR

Making of A Walk with Love and Death.

Ride This Way Grey Horse

1970

1960s · 6 titles

A Walk with Love and Death poster
5.9

During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love with an aristocrat. As they find shelter in a monastery, their romance is overshadowed by the ongoing conflict between peasants and noblemen.

A Walk with Love and Death

1969

Death of a Jew poster
8.0

A confrontation between two enemies. One is a young, captured Israeli agent and the other an older Arab inspector who tries to get the agent talk by making him regain his desire to live.

Death of a Jew

1969

Five Days in Sinai poster
4.8

During the Six Day War between Egypt and Israel a crack team of soldiers are sent on a dangerous mission and end up getting stranded in the desert, where they are forced to fight off numerous attacks by the enemy.

Five Days in Sinai

1968

He Walked Through the Fields poster
6.5

Uri, the first son of a "kibbutz", comes home from 2 years of studying. He finds his father has joined the British army, and his mother is with another man. He meets Mika - a new immigrant from Poland - and quickly falls in love with her. He is then torn between his commitment to his home family and girl, and between the "Palmakh".

He Walked Through the Fields

1967

Scouting Patrol poster
6.0

Israeli soldiers cross the border into hostile Arab territory to kidnap an enemy terrorist. After the man is captured, the Israeli unit receives warning of an enemy counter attack, and the unit is forced to trek through the desert on foot.

Scouting Patrol

1967

The Dress poster
7.2

Three short stories of life in Tel Aviv; A girl meets a boy in a library and has to decide what to do next; A young husband comes home to meet his wife's boyfriend; A young clerk opens a letter and finds the photograph of an unknown young girl who he then tries to locate.

The Dress

1969

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn poster
5.6

After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

2014

Only Dogs Run Free poster
7.0

A successful lawyer, who has traumatic memories from his army service, is testifying against his best friend from his unit. His wife, a social-worker, is trying to save a poor family named Siton. The couple's life collapses when the wife get raped by a gang.

Only Dogs Run Free

2007

An Electric Blanket Named Moshe poster
6.5

The second chapter in Assi Dayan's trilogy centers on three marginal characters from "Life According to Agfa". Malka, a whore with a Romanian accent who dreams of becoming a singer, Levi, her pimp and Moshe, a homeless man who dreams that Malka will love him and follows Malka and Levi. Levi navigates the trio in a grotesque and turbulent world in which people have lost the purpose of their existence. The result is a black comedy that combines the elements of the film "Bourekas" with poetic enlightening moments, all in the special, confident and blatant style of Assi Dayan.

An Electric Blanket Named Moshe

1994

An Electric Blanket Named Moshe poster
6.5

The second chapter in Assi Dayan's trilogy centers on three marginal characters from "Life According to Agfa". Malka, a whore with a Romanian accent who dreams of becoming a singer, Levi, her pimp and Moshe, a homeless man who dreams that Malka will love him and follows Malka and Levi. Levi navigates the trio in a grotesque and turbulent world in which people have lost the purpose of their existence. The result is a black comedy that combines the elements of the film "Bourekas" with poetic enlightening moments, all in the special, confident and blatant style of Assi Dayan.

An Electric Blanket Named Moshe

1994

Israel Forever poster
8.0

A minor politician, suffering with a temporary sexual disorder that is soon to be written about in the local press, is sent anonymously to Eilat for rest and pleasantries. His wife, believing he was on a trip abroad also goes to Eilat on the advice of her friend.

Israel Forever

1981

Israel Forever poster
8.0

A minor politician, suffering with a temporary sexual disorder that is soon to be written about in the local press, is sent anonymously to Eilat for rest and pleasantries. His wife, believing he was on a trip abroad also goes to Eilat on the advice of her friend.

Israel Forever

1981

Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer poster
8.0

Sergio 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

Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer poster
8.0

Sergio 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

Overdose poster
NR

A young actress, trying to become part of the glamorous movie industry, becomes a heavy drug addict - destroying her career, life and family. One of the first Israeli films to deal with the rising drug usage problem of teenagers, based on the true life story of Mona Zilberstein who took a lethal drug overdose

Overdose

1993

Saint Cohen poster
7.5

A 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

The Hit poster
5.9

Dr. Shuki Chaftziva is a ballroom dancing instructor who tries his hand at match-making. He follows the obituaries and takes his client, Zigi Fuchsman, an auto mechanic and childhood friend, to comfort the mourners and check out the widow and her property. At the same time, Ben Gurion Shemesh, a grease monkey who wants to be a singer, tries to win the heart of Dina, the disco floozy and also Zigi's daughter

The Hit

1979

The Hit poster
5.9

Dr. Shuki Chaftziva is a ballroom dancing instructor who tries his hand at match-making. He follows the obituaries and takes his client, Zigi Fuchsman, an auto mechanic and childhood friend, to comfort the mourners and check out the widow and her property. At the same time, Ben Gurion Shemesh, a grease monkey who wants to be a singer, tries to win the heart of Dina, the disco floozy and also Zigi's daughter

The Hit

1979

Love Letter to Cinema poster
8.0

Love Letters to Cinema is a collection of ten "letters” in the form of short films (4 minutes each), written and directed by ten outstanding Israeli directors. The films and the directors conduct a dialogue, whereas the directors create a short film with their unique voice, bringing to the audience a group of work that reflects on cinema.

Love Letter to Cinema

2014

How to Cover Your Ass poster
7.0

A Tel Avivian man from the left wing camp uses the peace support rallies as an alibi to cover for his affair with a right-wing camp woman. Rabin’s murder disrupts his plans.

How to Cover Your Ass

1998

Mr. Baum poster
7.0

Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain tumor and will die in 90 minutes.

Mr. Baum

1997

Mr. Baum poster
7.0

Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain tumor and will die in 90 minutes.

Mr. Baum

1997

Girls poster
6.1

Four weeks of basic training for girls in the IDF: seven girls and two sergeants from different backgrounds (Canadian girl, an immigrant from Russia, Sabra Buckley, etc.)

Girls

1985

Life According To Agfa poster
7.1

The film takes place in Tel Aviv, much of it in a fictitious local pub called Barbie, a satirical nickname for a famous mental health institution in Israel. The pub's name hints at the characters and the events which occur in the pub and which befall its owner (Daliah), the employees and customers. The plot unfolds with a streak of violence which takes a surprising turn.

Life According To Agfa

1992

Life According To Agfa poster
7.1

The film takes place in Tel Aviv, much of it in a fictitious local pub called Barbie, a satirical nickname for a famous mental health institution in Israel. The pub's name hints at the characters and the events which occur in the pub and which befall its owner (Daliah), the employees and customers. The plot unfolds with a streak of violence which takes a surprising turn.

Life According To Agfa

1992

The Day We Met poster
5.2

After being called for his mandatory yearly Israeli army reserve duty, Arik Schwartzman finds himself looking for a uniform wearing serial rapist. He is aided by Natalie, a young female soldier who looks for her lost father.

The Day We Met

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

כשדני הרג את גאנדי

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

כשדני הרג את גאנדי

2005

Beautiful Troubles poster
7.5

Armand 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

Beautiful Troubles poster
7.5

Armand 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

No artwork available
6.0

A universal anti-religious satire which occurs in the latter of 2001 and deals with the life of God and his son Jesus. While Jesus is trained and sent to bring redemption, God is desperately seeking for the meaning of his only incomprehensible creation - Love.

The Gospel According to God

2004

No artwork available
6.0

A universal anti-religious satire which occurs in the latter of 2001 and deals with the life of God and his son Jesus. While Jesus is trained and sent to bring redemption, God is desperately seeking for the meaning of his only incomprehensible creation - Love.

The Gospel According to God

2004

Dr. Pomerantz poster
7.1

Doctor Yoel Pomerantz is a washed-up, self-loathing psychologist who lives on the 12th floor of a high-rise with his Aspberger's son, Yoav, who spends his days pretending to be a traffic cop and proudly giving out parking tickets. Dr. Pomerantz sees a few patients a week, barely enough to keep he and Yoav in ramen noodles and with a roof over their heads. In addition, he works shifts at a suicide hotline. When he gets desperate financially, he recruits hotline callers to see him privately, which is discovered and results in his getting unceremoniously fired.

Dr. Pomerantz

2012

Dr. Pomerantz poster
7.1

Doctor Yoel Pomerantz is a washed-up, self-loathing psychologist who lives on the 12th floor of a high-rise with his Aspberger's son, Yoav, who spends his days pretending to be a traffic cop and proudly giving out parking tickets. Dr. Pomerantz sees a few patients a week, barely enough to keep he and Yoav in ramen noodles and with a roof over their heads. In addition, he works shifts at a suicide hotline. When he gets desperate financially, he recruits hotline callers to see him privately, which is discovered and results in his getting unceremoniously fired.

Dr. Pomerantz

2012

Final Exams poster
8.5

A pair of high school kids in love, Ronnie and Orna tangled up in an unplanned pregnancy. For this reason there has been a clear dilemma between the different options: abortion, adoption or leavng the child on their own growth.

Final Exams

1983

Final Exams poster
8.5

A pair of high school kids in love, Ronnie and Orna tangled up in an unplanned pregnancy. For this reason there has been a clear dilemma between the different options: abortion, adoption or leavng the child on their own growth.

Final Exams

1983

Invitation to Murder poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Invitation to Murder

1973

The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Bad poster
8.5

The prisoner sentence to a very long time gets visitation home in order to meet his wife. The only problem is that he got a company - one of the prison guards.

The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Bad

1987

The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Bad poster
8.5

The prisoner sentence to a very long time gets visitation home in order to meet his wife. The only problem is that he got a company - one of the prison guards.

The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Bad

1987

Battle of the Chairmanship poster
7.5

A funny comedy about a battle for a chairmanship of condo association. AKA Condo Mishmash

Battle of the Chairmanship

1986