A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. Read More »
Tag Archives: Amos Gitai
Golem, the Spirit of the Exile / Golem, l’esprit de l’exil (1992) Amos Gitai, Hanna Schygulla, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Ophrah Shemesh
An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement Read More »
Eden (2001) Amos Gitai, Samantha Morton
Is the story of Samantha and Dov Ernst, American Zionists who emigrated to Palestine. Read More »
Berlin-Jerusalem AKA Berlin-Yerushalaim (1989) Amos Gitai, Lisa Kreuzer, Rivka Neuman, Markus Stockhausen
Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine Read More »
Kippur (2000) Amos Gitai, Liron Levo, Tomer Russo, Uri Klauzner
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. Read More »
Alila (2003) Amos Gitai, Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri Klauzner
In Tel Aviv, the gloomy Ezra hires foreign workers without permits to build an addition to a homely block of flats Read More »
Ananas (1984) Amos Gitai, Documentary
One day, when I opened my refrigerator, I looked closely at a can of pineapple. It had been “made in the Philippines,” “packaged in Honolulu,” “distributed in San Francisco” and the label “printed in Japan”. Read More »
Yom Yom / Day after day (1998) Amos Gitai, Moshe Ivgy, Hanna Maron, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Comedy, Drama
A slice of life – day after day – in Haifa, where Moshe and Didi’s marriage is on the rocks, affairs are casual, and Moshe’s angst about health, his parents, sex, communication, and business are pervasive and existential.
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