Tzvi Shissel

Acting

Tzvi Shissel

Born 1946-07-15

Tzvi Shissel is an actor and director, known for Kvalim (1992), Sababa (1983) and Lemon Popsicle 9: The Party Goes On (2001).

Acting credits

Apples from the Desert poster
6.2

Based on the award-winning play and popular Israeli short story, this poignant family drama follows Rivka, 19-years-old and strong-willed, who struggles to follow the conservative lifestyle of her ultra-orthodox parents in Jerusalem. Determined to break free from her parents’ rigid worldview, she runs away to a secular farming community in the desert. The decision pushes the two generations to confront the chasm between their stringent views of tradition and modernity.

Apples from the Desert

2014

Kicking Out Shoshana poster
4.9

Ami Shoshan is the star of the "Sons of Jerusalem" football club, a team known for its violent, racist and homophobic fans. One unfortunate evening Shoshan flirts with a beautiful woman not knowing that she is the mistress of a local Mafia boss, “Blackie” Bokovza. The punishment for this offence is that Ami must summon a press conference and announce that he is gay.

Kicking Out Shoshana

2014

Going Bananas poster
3.6

An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', but this silly monkey business is decent family fun.

Going Bananas

1987

Peeping Toms poster
4.4

Gote and Eli are two aging friends who don't want to age. Gote is a lifeguard who's fighting peepers on the Tel-Aviv beach. Eli is a guitar player who dreams of building a night club in altman's restaurant.

Peeping Toms

1972

Private Manoeuvres poster
5.1

A spin-off film that centers around Yudale/Huey's mandatory Israeli army service, post boot camp. This time he helps his sergeant Shemesh beat a rival base, while also beating him to score with the visiting Swiss Ambassador's wife.

Private Manoeuvres

1983

Cables poster
6.5

A comedy about changes in the life of Israeli family after they get a cable TV with a lot of channels.

Cables

1992

The Snail poster
8.5

A musical, semi-documentary motion picture considering the making of "Shablul", a rock album by Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch. The film demonstrates fragments of being, a few funny sketches and musical numbers, much affected by The Beatles' flicks. "Shablul" reminds its viewers the taste of 60s, showing them the Israeli pop/rock scene of these jolly years.

The Snail

1970

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

Lool poster
NR

A collection of skits and songs from Israeli television shows from the 1970s.

Lool

1988

Big Eyes poster
5.7

Benny Furman is a basketball headcoach who can't decide what he really wants.

Big Eyes

1974

Tzvi says - Shissel and Einstein poster
NR

Tzvi Shissel's last film documents his lifelong friendship and creative partnership with Arik Einstein, from their Tel Avivian childhood to Shissel's death, using never-before-seen homemade and archived footage.

Tzvi says - Shissel and Einstein

2022

The Appointed poster
5.8

Shmaya (Shuli Rand), a small-time magician whose career consists of gigs at local venues in the north of Israel, meets Oshra (Ronit Elkabetz) at one of his shows, who possesses genuine mystical powers. Shmaya makes Oshra part of his act and together, they perform real-life feats of magic and miracles before their slack-jawed audiences. Meanwhile, Shmaya’s father – a holy man with his own loyal following, is dying. He asks his followers to bring him his estranged son, so that he can take his place after his death and lead their community. Shmaya does just that and goes on to become a spiritual leader. However, his ongoing attraction to Oshra is now on a collision course with his new calling.

The Appointed

1990

It's a Funny, Funny World poster
6.5

Israeli gag comedy starring Boaz Davidson and featuring songs by Ariel Zilber.

It's a Funny, Funny World

1978

Crazy Camera poster
8.5

A candid camera comedy where hidden camera films unsuspecting street passers-by reacting to comic situations the filmmakers set up.

Crazy Camera

1989

The Other Side poster
NR

An experimental and absurd avant-garde film about a bunch of unrelated people, all standing on the side of the road waiting for the traffic light to change from red to green, but the traffic light won't change. More and more people gather on the sidewalk, and a kind of class society is formed there. The film was shot during one day in which Ephraim Kishon lent Uri Zohar the set of "Blaumilch Canal" at Herzliya Studios.

The Other Side

1968

Like Adults poster
8.0

"Kemo gedolim" is a collection of well known Israeli, children songs sang by Ariḳ Ainshṭain and others. In between the songs embedded short skits starring Moni Moshonov and Tsevi Shisel , who embody two porters hauling a giant crate up a winding staircase and unexpectedly run into Ariḳ, a group of kids, jugglers, clowns and storytellers emerging from the crate. The two, try to do their job faithfully but occasionally they also try to sing, dance and play, which creates a variety of funny moments.

Like Adults

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Like Adults - Part Two

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Like Adults - Part One

1991

Behind the camera

Lemon Popsicle 9: The Party Goes On poster
5.4

This movie is a sequel to the saga of movies about 3 guys in the middle of the 50's during their sex urges and other funny incidents.

Lemon Popsicle 9: The Party Goes On

2001

Private Manoeuvres poster
5.1

A spin-off film that centers around Yudale/Huey's mandatory Israeli army service, post boot camp. This time he helps his sergeant Shemesh beat a rival base, while also beating him to score with the visiting Swiss Ambassador's wife.

Private Manoeuvres

1983

Cables poster
6.5

A comedy about changes in the life of Israeli family after they get a cable TV with a lot of channels.

Cables

1992

Cables poster
6.5

A comedy about changes in the life of Israeli family after they get a cable TV with a lot of channels.

Cables

1992

Cables poster
6.5

A comedy about changes in the life of Israeli family after they get a cable TV with a lot of channels.

Cables

1992

Kaveret: Pictures from the Life of a Band poster
NR

In the summer of 1990, six years after the first and successful reunion of Kaveret, the band members reunited for another concert tour under the title "Kaveret Returns". The film "Kaveret - Photos from the Life of a Band", released in 1992, documented this concert tour held in Yehoshua Gardens Park in Tel Aviv, in Caesarea Amphitheater, in Arad and in Eilat. The late director Zvi Shissel accompanied the members of the band on their journey across the country, heard stories and memories from them from the beginning of the journey and documented Kaveret on stage and behind the scenes.

Kaveret: Pictures from the Life of a Band

1992

Lool poster
NR

A collection of skits and songs from Israeli television shows from the 1970s.

Lool

1988

Lool poster
NR

A collection of skits and songs from Israeli television shows from the 1970s.

Lool

1988

Lool poster
NR

A collection of skits and songs from Israeli television shows from the 1970s.

Lool

1988

Tzvi says - Shissel and Einstein poster
NR

Tzvi Shissel's last film documents his lifelong friendship and creative partnership with Arik Einstein, from their Tel Avivian childhood to Shissel's death, using never-before-seen homemade and archived footage.

Tzvi says - Shissel and Einstein

2022

It's a Funny, Funny World poster
6.5

Israeli gag comedy starring Boaz Davidson and featuring songs by Ariel Zilber.

It's a Funny, Funny World

1978

Crazy Camera poster
8.5

A candid camera comedy where hidden camera films unsuspecting street passers-by reacting to comic situations the filmmakers set up.

Crazy Camera

1989

No artwork available
NR

This documentary, directed by Boaz Davidson, was originally intended to warn youth against drug abuse. The film offers an intimate portrait of Shmuel Adi, known as Handsome Jimmy, a 29-year-old man who lives in Tel Aviv and is addicted to opiates and other drugs. In his unique speaking style, Jimmy talks candidly about his struggles and the loneliness of being an addict. The soundtrack features Shalom Hanoch’s song “Children of Life,” written especially for the film.

Beautiful Jimmy

1973

Like Adults poster
8.0

"Kemo gedolim" is a collection of well known Israeli, children songs sang by Ariḳ Ainshṭain and others. In between the songs embedded short skits starring Moni Moshonov and Tsevi Shisel , who embody two porters hauling a giant crate up a winding staircase and unexpectedly run into Ariḳ, a group of kids, jugglers, clowns and storytellers emerging from the crate. The two, try to do their job faithfully but occasionally they also try to sing, dance and play, which creates a variety of funny moments.

Like Adults

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Like Adults - Part Two

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Like Adults - Part One

1991