Igal Bursztyn

Birth : 1941-05-27, Manchester, England, United Kingdom

History

Igal Bursztyn (born May 27, 1941) is an Israeli film director, writer, producer and adjunct full professor at the Tel Aviv University Film and TV Department.

Movies

Our Beds Are Burning
Director
The film presents fascist ideologies since the beginning of the 20th Century. The actor/presenter of Maurice Barrés argues against foreign labor on the Tel Aviv beach. Mussolini in a gym. Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera in a bookshop. Carl Schmitt at court. Abba Ahimeir and Itamar Ben-Avi in a public library. Gudrun Streiter recalls her love affair with an SA Stormtrooper with Hitler and Himmler on a bench in a park. Three Rabbis from the Yitzhar Settlement on the West Bank: Shapira, Ginzburg and Elitzur have recently ruled that “there is a reason to kill a child if it is clear that it will grow to harm us” (Torat Hamelekh, 2009, pg. 207). They too appear and discuss their interpretation of Divine commands on a park bench.
Etsba Elohim
Writer
A working-class guy meets the beautiful model from the billboard. But a few more people are involved. Here, the guy is married and his daughter has a crush on the weatherman. The weatherman wants to marry the cosmetics queen from the billboards. The cosmetics queen kind of likes the guy's sidekick. The sidekick kind of likes the guy's daughter, although she's in high school and the age difference would raise anyone's eyebrows.
Etsba Elohim
Director
A working-class guy meets the beautiful model from the billboard. But a few more people are involved. Here, the guy is married and his daughter has a crush on the weatherman. The weatherman wants to marry the cosmetics queen from the billboards. The cosmetics queen kind of likes the guy's sidekick. The sidekick kind of likes the guy's daughter, although she's in high school and the age difference would raise anyone's eyebrows.
Zimzum
Director
Uriel Morag, a retired general with a glorious past that includes some less than glorious episodes, has, like many other army officers, graduated into an executive ministerial job. Self-important, overweight and - in his own mind - indispensable, he heads for the countryside with Mona, his latest bimbo, for a weekend away. But as he drives his BMW towards the village farm of two friends from his military past, he and his love are transported into a twisted Through The Looking Glass-style version of present day Israel.
Everlasting Joy
Writer
A descendant of Spinoza is living, translating, and commenting on life today.
Everlasting Joy
Director
A descendant of Spinoza is living, translating, and commenting on life today.
The Passion of Dr. Wider
Director
A kind-hearted, liberal and person-loving orthopedic doctor is about to purchase a new apartment for his son and daughter-in-law. While visiting the building site, he steps on excrement left in the living room by the laborers locked up for the night. He can't get rid of the smell in any way and falls into the terrible crisis of his life...
Leibovitch in Ma'alot
Director
An intellectual Western: three philosophers huddled on a taxi backseat ride on a rainy day to a small town in the Galilee. The town prepares to confront them. The confrontation at the local community center leads to the question: is a civil war in Israel unavoidable?
Souvenirs from Hebron
Story
Three IDF soldiers on a routine patrol in the early 1980s in occupied Hebron.
בלפר
Director
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 ...