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Moshe Mizrahi film festival This story centres 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, but as time passes he develops a deep affection for
Rosa, played by Michael Bat-Adam. Written by Dan Sternberg. Starring
Michal Bat-Adam, Gabi Ptterman and Yosef Shiloach. Harif/Spiro Ark Book by email: education@spiroark.org The House on Chelouche
St (1973) The film tells the story of a Sephardi family
of Egyptian Jewish immigrants who settle in 1947 Tel Aviv. Clara,
(played by Gila Almagor) , one of Israel’s most prominent
actresses, is a widow with four children. Sami makes the transition
from a shy 15- year-old to a working man and an activist in the
Irgun resistance movement. He develops a romantic attachment with
a Russian librarian (Michal Bat-Adam ). Under pressure to take
a husband, Clara’s feelings are complicated by the advances
of another Egyptian Jew, played by Yosef Shiloach. The movie is
a vivid description of the lives of Sephardi immigrant families
on the eve of the declaration of the state of Israel against a
backdrop of escalating violence. The film is inspired by Chekhov's "Uncle
Vanya", relocated to Israel in the 1990s. Avner, a respected
Professor of Art and his young wife, Ilana, come to visit the farm
run by his brother-in-law Menahem and children from his first marriage,
with a view to selling it. |