
Acting
Yossi Pollak
Acting credits
8.3Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.
Jesus
1979
8.5Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.
Exile
1992
6.4Young Benny is very lonely and has only one dream - to meet his hero Oded Katash, the basketball player.
The Long Journey
2004
NRDirector Yeud Levanon’s feature-length debut follows the story of Itzik (Gedalia Besser), a military radio station producer who, in between having to navigate all the internal power struggles at the station, must also juggle his estranged wife (Gila Almagor), teenage daughter, young pregnant partner (Dafna Armoni), and a soldier with whom he is having an affair (Irit Sheleg). Meanwhile, he is also working on getting a young Middle Eastern folk singer’s (Arnon Zadok) album produced. The film’s protagonist is living a mile-a-minute life made up of constant downward spirals or ego-tripping highs. However, try as he might to have his cake and eat it – it is only a matter of time until his whole world comes crashing down on him.
Not for Broadcast
1981
6.2Ilan Ben-Natan is a man on his sixties and a well-known professor of astrophysics at the University of Haifa. He is married with Naomi, a 28 years old, attractive book illustrator. Inclined to suspect, he finds out her wife's betrayal and then face his wife's lover, Oded Safra, a painter and a filmmaker, younger than him. During the argument, the scientist kills his rival and takes away the corpse in the boot of his car. With the complicity of his 80 years old mother, Ilan buries the man in a hole just dig in the cemetery. After a series of casualties, the corpse is then found and the commissioner Anton Karam, an old friend of the professor, starts the police investigation. When every signs seems to lead to the discovery of the assassin, an unexpected event will call every element into question again.
Naomi
2010
8.0Azit, the intelligent German Shepherd dog of Paratrooper Lieutenant Uri's girlfriend Tammy, rescues the wife of the neighborhood butcher from a pickpocket. After that, Azit is sent to a military training base where she is certified for parachute missions, detection, and surveillance.
Azit the Paratrooper Dog
1972
6.5A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
The House on Chelouche Street
1973
6.5A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
The House on Chelouche Street
1973
7.8Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling outcast, she enters into a forbidden affair with her daughter's classmate, Matti, an idealistic 19-year-old rejected by the army.
Atalia
1984
NRAfter fighting the Arab armies, Assaf, an Israeli soldier, falls in love with an American living in the Arab district of Jerusalem. One day, he believes he recognizes a wanted terrorist.
Worlds Apart
1980
8.0A popular wise man/folk healer is anxious to marry off his daughter, but she refuses all his suggested suitors.
Marriage Games
1973
7.0Yoni, an Israeli pop singer, and Walid, a Palestinian Arab professor, raise money from a German source in order to build a Palestinian college within Israel. But both are trapped in a deadly struggle: Palestinian radicals attempt to use Yoni and Walid to purchase arms, while the Israeli secret police try use them to locate Arab extremists.
Fellow Travellers
1983
The three anonymous protagonists of the film are each sent to a different type of community a kibbutz, moshav, and moshava, to learn about their special characteristics and the different lifestyles of their residents, and also meet a mysterious girl along the way. In this part, we follow our hero who was sent to a kibbutz.
Kibbutz Moshav Moshava - Kibbutz
1973
6.0Alienated from a society that no longer seems to have a place for them, two elderly ex-soldiers undertake a vigilante campaign against injustice and disrespect on the streets of Tel Aviv. (TIFF)
Eagles
2012
8.5The Bukharan neighborhood of Jerusalem in the 1920s Naftali is a wealthy trader and a middle-aged widow whose all his former wives have mysteriously passed away and he is afraid to remarry with a belief that he has a curse on him. The matchmaker presses and the old woman coaxes and finally carries Flora, a 24-year-old virgin, but not to infect her with a curse, he avoids any physical contact with her. The plot gets complicated when Flora gets hurt as a result of her relationship with the fabric merchant, and Naftali, who can't bear the shame, turns his anger on his young wife.
A Thousand and One Wives
1989