Avner Hizkiyahu

Acting

Avner Hizkiyahu

Born — Died

1926-11-22 — 1994-04-28

Place of birth

Kazanlak, Bulgaria

Known for

Acting

Credits

23 titles

Avner Hizkiyahu (Hebrew: אבנר חזקיהו‎; 22 November 1926 – 28 April 1994) was an Israeli actor and singer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Avner Hizkiyahu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 9 titles

The Policeman poster
6.9

Azulai is a policeman in Jaffa, whose incompetence is only matched by his soft-heartedness. His superiors want to send him to early retirement, but he would like to stay on the force, and the criminals of Jaffa don't want to see him leave either...

The Policeman

1971

Seven Times a Day poster
3.3

A Quebec architect, working in Israel, visits a psychoanalyst to learn why he has an insatiable libido.

Seven Times a Day

1971

The House on Chelouche Street poster
6.5

A 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

I Love You Rosa poster
5.7

This story centers on the Jewish practice that requires an unmarried brother to marry the childless widow of his dead brother. In this story the younger brother is only 12 years old when his brother dies. The requirement is avoided by a legal fiction, but as time passes in the story, the situation changes.

I Love You Rosa

1972

Rachel's Man poster
9.0

The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait seven years before they can marry, but fate intervenes as Rachel's sister sleeps with Jacob and bears him a child.

Rachel's Man

1976

Belfer poster
8.5

Solomon Belfer, child who arrives to kibbutz after his father fled the country. He dreames of the moment when his father sent him a plane ticket, and he will leave the kibbutz. Meanwhile, he lies in his room and refuses to join the life of the community ...

Belfer

1978

The Pill poster
6.0

A burlesque fantasy about a fountain-of-youth pill and its effects on Getz, a down-and-out Tel Aviv night-club singer. After taking this much sought after pill, Getz becomes the epitome of youthful energy, and therefore a teen idol, a symbol of beauty and youth, up to the cathartic ending of the movie.

The Pill

1972

Daughters, Daughters poster
6.4

In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son.

Daughters, Daughters

1974

Save the Lifeguard poster
6.2

Comedy about day to day life of a Gordon beach lifeguard and his friends.

Save the Lifeguard

1977

1960s · 8 titles

El Dorado poster
5.7

Sherman, who is on trial for murder, is found not guilty thanks to reasonable doubt, however; having stood trial leaves the young felon a changed man. He falls head over heels with his defence attorney’s bright daughter and is even willing to turn his back on a life of crime for her, including walking away from his long-time partner, Jaffan prostitute, Margot. However, the road back to the straight and narrow is not an easy one and indeed, many around hm are wary of this so-called, newly-reformed Sherman.

El Dorado

1963

The Big Dig poster
7.0

A slapstick comedy lampooning bureaucracy and the madness of everyday life in Israel centers on an escaped lunatic who digs up the streets of Tel-Aviv with a drill.

The Big Dig

1969

999 Aliza: The Policeman poster
5.5

Aliza mizrahi, the building cleaner, solves a murder where the police fails

999 Aliza: The Policeman

1967

Ervinka poster
6.8

A good-natured but incorrigible layabout becomes embroiled in a plot to rob the Israeli lottery, all the while indulging in his boundless zeal for mischief and romance.

Ervinka

1967

Fortuna poster
7.0

A film about the clash between the patriarchal values of Jewish immigrants from North Africa and modern life.

Fortuna

1966

Impossible on Saturday poster
10.0

Robert Hirsch impresses as he takes on 11 different roles in Alex Joffé's comedy about the six sons of a recently deceased Jewish Casanova. To receive their inheritance, the sons must convene in Israel and recite a Kaddish (memorial prayer) for their dad. But planning the gathering is no easy feat. The film's title is based on the nonobservant son's futile attempts to contact his siblings on the one day when working is forbidden by Jewish law.

Impossible on Saturday

1965

My Margo poster
8.0

A love story between two people from different cultures and the relatives who manage to separate them until the lovers again find each other.

My Margo

1969

What a Gang poster
7.5

Directed by Zeev Havatzelet.

What a Gang

1962