Directing

Raphaël Nadjari

Place of birth

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Raphaël Nadjari (Hebrew: רפאל נדג'ארי; born 1971) is a French-Israeli writer and director for film and television. In 1993, Nadjari started working for French television as a writer and director. In 1997, he wrote the television screenplay Le P'tit Bleu, which was directed by Francois Vautier for Arte as part of the TV drama collection Petits Gangsters. The same year he wrote and directed his first US feature, The Shade (released in 1999), which starred Richard Edson, Lorie Marino, and Jeff Ware. It was an adaptation of A Gentle Creature by Dostoevsky that Nadjari updated, setting it in contemporary New York City. This film was an official selection for Un Certain Regard at the 1999 Cannes…

Known for

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6.5

The first film of New York-based French director Raphael Nadjari is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Gentle Creature, which had also inspired Une Femme douce of Robert Bresson. The Shade is a drama about a mysterious woman and a pawnbroker who meet in New York. The film begins with Simon, who is alone in his apartment with the corpse of his wife, Anna, who has just committed suicide. In his grief, he remembers the first time he met her, a year ago when she walked into his pawnbroker's shop in Spanish Harlem. Mysterious Anna, who seems to come from nowhere, impresses solitary Simon with her sad beauty, and he proposes to her on their first night out. The Shade is a love story with great psychological insight.

The Shade

1999

Tehilim poster
5.2

A family in Jerusalem is torn apart by the mysterious disappearance of their father after a tragic a car accident.

Tehilim

2007

A Strange Course Of Events poster
5.3

Shaul (Uri Pepper), the film’s protagonist, a solitary divorced man, tries to overcome his difficult emotional state. He goes to see his father Shimon (Moni Moshonov) in Haifa and confronts him, blaming his father for all his current woes. Shimon and his partner Betty (Michaela Eshet), try to help Shaul with alternative methods, using stones with magical attributes and therapeutic oils. With their help, Shaul becomes much more optimistic…

A Strange Course Of Events

2013

Mobile Étoile poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mobile Étoile

2016

No artwork available
NR

Saul is a divorced man living in solitude. After five years in which he has not met his father Shimon, he decides to visit him in Haifa. The reunion stirs up old disputes and Saul blames his father for all his troubles. As a result, the father and his partner Betty, an expert in alternative therapies using magic stones and oils, decide to treat the underworld. Will the happiness of Shimon and Betty's home and the treatment he undergoes make Saul become a more optimistic person, repair his relationship with his ex-wife and his daughter and open up to a new love?

Above the Ground

2014

I am Josh Polonski's Brother poster
7.1

Three brothers, Abe, Ben and Josh work in a textile shop and live a relatively quiet life until one day when Josh is killed in front of Abe's eyes. Determined to solve the mystery surrounding his brother's death, Abe is drawn deeper into an underworld filled with prostitution where he meets Jill, a call girl who guides him in his brother's footsteps.

I am Josh Polonski's Brother

2001

Behind the camera

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6.5

The first film of New York-based French director Raphael Nadjari is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Gentle Creature, which had also inspired Une Femme douce of Robert Bresson. The Shade is a drama about a mysterious woman and a pawnbroker who meet in New York. The film begins with Simon, who is alone in his apartment with the corpse of his wife, Anna, who has just committed suicide. In his grief, he remembers the first time he met her, a year ago when she walked into his pawnbroker's shop in Spanish Harlem. Mysterious Anna, who seems to come from nowhere, impresses solitary Simon with her sad beauty, and he proposes to her on their first night out. The Shade is a love story with great psychological insight.

The Shade

1999

No artwork available
6.5

The first film of New York-based French director Raphael Nadjari is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Gentle Creature, which had also inspired Une Femme douce of Robert Bresson. The Shade is a drama about a mysterious woman and a pawnbroker who meet in New York. The film begins with Simon, who is alone in his apartment with the corpse of his wife, Anna, who has just committed suicide. In his grief, he remembers the first time he met her, a year ago when she walked into his pawnbroker's shop in Spanish Harlem. Mysterious Anna, who seems to come from nowhere, impresses solitary Simon with her sad beauty, and he proposes to her on their first night out. The Shade is a love story with great psychological insight.

The Shade

1999

Tehilim poster
5.2

A family in Jerusalem is torn apart by the mysterious disappearance of their father after a tragic a car accident.

Tehilim

2007

Tehilim poster
5.2

A family in Jerusalem is torn apart by the mysterious disappearance of their father after a tragic a car accident.

Tehilim

2007

A Strange Course Of Events poster
5.3

Shaul (Uri Pepper), the film’s protagonist, a solitary divorced man, tries to overcome his difficult emotional state. He goes to see his father Shimon (Moni Moshonov) in Haifa and confronts him, blaming his father for all his current woes. Shimon and his partner Betty (Michaela Eshet), try to help Shaul with alternative methods, using stones with magical attributes and therapeutic oils. With their help, Shaul becomes much more optimistic…

A Strange Course Of Events

2013

A Strange Course Of Events poster
5.3

Shaul (Uri Pepper), the film’s protagonist, a solitary divorced man, tries to overcome his difficult emotional state. He goes to see his father Shimon (Moni Moshonov) in Haifa and confronts him, blaming his father for all his current woes. Shimon and his partner Betty (Michaela Eshet), try to help Shaul with alternative methods, using stones with magical attributes and therapeutic oils. With their help, Shaul becomes much more optimistic…

A Strange Course Of Events

2013

Mobile Étoile poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mobile Étoile

2016

No artwork available
NR

Saul is a divorced man living in solitude. After five years in which he has not met his father Shimon, he decides to visit him in Haifa. The reunion stirs up old disputes and Saul blames his father for all his troubles. As a result, the father and his partner Betty, an expert in alternative therapies using magic stones and oils, decide to treat the underworld. Will the happiness of Shimon and Betty's home and the treatment he undergoes make Saul become a more optimistic person, repair his relationship with his ex-wife and his daughter and open up to a new love?

Above the Ground

2014

No artwork available
NR

Saul is a divorced man living in solitude. After five years in which he has not met his father Shimon, he decides to visit him in Haifa. The reunion stirs up old disputes and Saul blames his father for all his troubles. As a result, the father and his partner Betty, an expert in alternative therapies using magic stones and oils, decide to treat the underworld. Will the happiness of Shimon and Betty's home and the treatment he undergoes make Saul become a more optimistic person, repair his relationship with his ex-wife and his daughter and open up to a new love?

Above the Ground

2014

I am Josh Polonski's Brother poster
7.1

Three brothers, Abe, Ben and Josh work in a textile shop and live a relatively quiet life until one day when Josh is killed in front of Abe's eyes. Determined to solve the mystery surrounding his brother's death, Abe is drawn deeper into an underworld filled with prostitution where he meets Jill, a call girl who guides him in his brother's footsteps.

I am Josh Polonski's Brother

2001

Apartment #5C poster
6.5

Nicky and Uri, two young Israeli, arrive in New York, living off small theft. They set down in a very modest Brooklyn appartment. One night, during an argument with Uri, Nicky inadvertently shoots herself in the leg.

Apartment #5C

2002

Apartment #5C poster
6.5

Nicky and Uri, two young Israeli, arrive in New York, living off small theft. They set down in a very modest Brooklyn appartment. One night, during an argument with Uri, Nicky inadvertently shoots herself in the leg.

Apartment #5C

2002

Stones poster
7.0

Michale is a thirty year old woman. She works with her father in a Tel Aviv accounting office providing services to important religious institutions. She divides her time between her child, her husband, her work and the man with whom she is having an affair. When Michale learns of the tragic death of her lover, her life is shattered.

Stones

2004

Stones poster
7.0

Michale is a thirty year old woman. She works with her father in a Tel Aviv accounting office providing services to important religious institutions. She divides her time between her child, her husband, her work and the man with whom she is having an affair. When Michale learns of the tragic death of her lover, her life is shattered.

Stones

2004

A History of Israeli Cinema poster
5.5

A History of Israeli Cinema is the result of years of researches, studies, documentation, screening, interviews, some recorded, some to learn, to understand, to unfold. Actors, thinkers, producers, filmmakers, professors, critics negotiated to build a narrative that remains fragile and incomplete. It is the process rather than the result that is shared here.

A History of Israeli Cinema

2009