Ya'ackov Banai

Movies

Not Without My Daughter
Aga Hakim
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
Makat Shemesh
A movie about a last summer in the life of four friends just before they go to the army during early 1980's Tel-Aviv summer before the war in Lebanon.
Mr. Leon
Rabbi
In a rendition of a father-daughter conflict based on misunderstandings, this melodrama focuses on Annette (Nurit Cohen) who has left home for the city where she is unexpectedly offered a leading role in a movie. She is excited as she returns home to tell her news to her father (Zeev Revach) -- a truly conservative shopkeeper -- but she is equally anxiety-ridden about his likely reaction.
The Omen
Arab (uncredited)
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Rak Hayom
The vegetables seller from the market falls in love with the university student.
Operation Black September
Yacov Banai
Mis'chakei Nisuim
A popular wise man/folk healer is anxious to marry off his daughter, but she refuses all his suggested suitors.
Madron
Sanchee (uncredited)
A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.
Death of a Jew
A confrontation between two enemies. One is a young, captured Israeli agent and the other an older Arab inspector who tries to get the agent talk by making him regain his desire to live.
Eight in the Footstep of One
A charming film about a group of children on a kibbutz in Israel who foil a plot by spies to blow up a Mirage jet during a military parade.
Sallah
Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of the big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
Lahat B'Mayim