Gila Almagor

Gila Almagor

Nacimiento : 1939-07-22, Haifa, Palestine [now Israel]

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Gila Almagor

Películas

Esau
Bulica
Un escritor (Lior Ashkenazi) regresa a la casa familiar en Israel para cuidar a su padre enfermo (Harvey Keitel). Allí debe enfrentarse a su amargado hermano menor, quien asumió toda la responsabilidad de la panadería de su familia y se casó con la mujer (Shira Haas) a quien ambos amaban.
Mossad
Rebecca
A Mossad agent competes with a CIA agent in a war with a terrorist organization that threatens to blow up the world with cell phones. If they fail in their mission, the head of the Mossad will not be able to light a torch on Independence Day on live television, which is forbidden.
Voice Over
Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School challenge the 1968 legendary black and white
Antenna
Sarah
Joshua, an 80-year old Holocaust survivor, discovers one morning, that a cellular antenna was installed on the roof of his house. It turned out that his neighbor has rented his part of the rooftop to a cellular company. Joshua feels a terrible injustice was done. He starts believing that all his diseases and pains are caused by the antenna's radiation. Joshua obsessively starts feeling the radiation everywhere and develops a persecution disorder which risks his life. He goes to war against his neighbor. His wife Sarah, and his 3 adult sons are dragged unwillingly into this vortex. The crisis reveals the personal problems of each of his sons, and they are forced to deal with their father's dark shadow.
Fever at Dawn
Reich Lili
The story of a love born in the strangest of circumstances between two long-suffering survivors of the hell that was the Holocaust. Their love overcomes all obstacles in its path, including death – when it eventually comes. Set in the Swedish rehabilitation camps during the autumn and winter of 1945.
Fire Birds
Olga
An eighty-year-old man's body is found with three stab wounds to the chest and a number tattooed along his forearm. Amnon, a police detective and second generation Holocaust survivor, is reluctantly assigned to the case. As the plot weaves between the past and present, their stories unfold.
The Debt
Rachel Brener
1965. Rachel Brener es una de las tres jóvenes agentes del Mossad que han capturado a "The Surgon of Trevlinca", un monstruo nazi que nunca fue juzgado en Israel y que cometió suicidio. Israel, 35 años más tarde... el nazi sigue aparentemente vivo.
The Shelter
Sarah Amihai
An Israeli family (father and son) is forced to take refuge in the underground shelter upon realizing that Israel is under missile attack.
Three Mothers
Rose, Flora and Yasmin were born as a triplet sixty something years ago in Alexandria, Egypt. Their well-off parents gave them names of flowers, and King Farouk of Egypt gave them his blessing. Today, in Israel, they live together in an apartment without men and without children...
Tied Hands
The film tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son. Like in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale "The Loveliest Rose in the World" where a prince must search for a rose to save his mother, who is dying in bed, "Tied Hands" sees a reversal of roles as a desperate mother goes out to find marijuana, to ease her son's pain. In her, turbulent journey in the streets of Tel-Aviv, old truths from her past come back to life and threaten to break down a wall of denials behind which, she's been hiding all her life.
Munich
Avner's Mother
Basada en hechos reales. Tras el asesinato de varios atletas israelíes por el grupo terrorista "Septiembre negro" en los Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich de 1972, un agente especial del Mossad tuvo que ejecutar una misión altamente secreta: asesinar a los responsables.
Riki Riki
Batya
What will Riki do after Asher, her fiancé, tells her that he got second thoughts regarding their wedding?..
The Gospel According to God
Mary
A universal anti-religious satire which occurs in the latter of 2001 and deals with the life of God and his son Jesus. While Jesus is trained and sent to bring redemption, God is desperately seeking for the meaning of his only incomprehensible creation - Love.
In Search of Peace
Self - actress
In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on the origins of the Middle East conflict. Combining a rich tapestry of rare archival film and photos, the film offers a unique global perspective on one of the seminal events in the 3,500-year history of the Jewish people. Featuring the voices of Edward Asner, Anne Bancroft, Richard Dreyfuss, Miriam Margolyes and Michael York. "An unabashedly emotional and stirring inspirational history of Israel..."
Dangerous Acts
Zvia Yisraeli
On the day he is released from prison, Yisarael appears on the doorstep of the woman whose life he had changed. A weird relationship develops between the two.
Passover Fever
יונה
On the evening of Passover dinner holiday ,a family gathering reveals the delicate relationships between parents, brothers,sisters, husbands and wives. Secrets and lies force them to understand how fragile everything is.
Sh'Chur
Mother
A Jewish Moroccan immigrant family living in Israel is nearly destroyed by conflicts resulting from generational differences in this arresting Israeli drama. It begins as Cheli, a successful but emotionally troubled talk show host who has been unable to deal with her traumatic childhood is traveling to attend her father's funeral. She is accompanied by her mentally ill sister Pnina and her adopted estranged daughter. It is a hellish trip and as they travel, flashbacks chronicle their painful youth. Rachel had always wanted to break away from her family's Moroccan heritage and so spent much time trying make herself fit in with her Israeli peers. She was humiliated by her poor, ignorant family. Her father was an overbearing, blindly religious fanatic and their mother was a witch who manipulated the family by casting spells. She feared her mother, and despised her insane sister, to whom she was very cruel.
Under The Domim Tree
Screenstory
Individual memories of a group of teenage Holocaust survivors in Israel creates sharp conflicts among them.
Under The Domim Tree
Henya Aleksandrowicz
Individual memories of a group of teenage Holocaust survivors in Israel creates sharp conflicts among them.
Life According To Agfa
Daliah
The film takes place in Tel Aviv, much of it in a fictitious local pub called Barbie, a satirical nickname for a famous Israeli mental health institution. The pub's name hints at the characters and the events which occur in the pub and which befall its owner (Daliah), the employees and customers. The plot unfolds with a streak of violence which takes a surprising turn.
Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levis Story
Nuhad
Based on the real-life experiences of Sis Levin, the wife of CNN Reporter Jerry Levin, who was taken hostage in Lebanon by Shiite Fundamentalists in 1984, and her struggle to free him.
The Rose Garden
Ruth
In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.
El verano de Aviya
Writer
Aviya tiene sólo un deseo: Vivir con su madre, deseo que se verá cumplido cuando ésta se presenta en el internado, donde Aviya ha vivido los últimos cinco años, y se la lleva a vivir con ella. La madre de Aviya tiene tatuado un número en el antebrazo y es considerada como una extranjera en su propio país, donde todo está organizado para "olvidar" el pasado. Pese a un entorno poco favorable, Aviya aprenderá a admirarla y a quererla. (FILMAFFINITY)
El verano de Aviya
Henya Aleksandrowicz
Aviya tiene sólo un deseo: Vivir con su madre, deseo que se verá cumplido cuando ésta se presenta en el internado, donde Aviya ha vivido los últimos cinco años, y se la lleva a vivir con ella. La madre de Aviya tiene tatuado un número en el antebrazo y es considerada como una extranjera en su propio país, donde todo está organizado para "olvidar" el pasado. Pese a un entorno poco favorable, Aviya aprenderá a admirarla y a quererla. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mil veces adiós
Lea
Durante la II Guerra Mundial un piloto americano que se ha unido a las Fuerzas Aéreas Británicas se recupera de sus heridas en un hospital de Jerusalén. A través de su jefe de escuadrón conoce a Sarah, una joven judía de origen sefardí. David y Sarah se enamoran prácticamente de inmediato, pero la familia de ella se opone al romance, especialmente porque David es hijo de un ministro de la religión protestante.
A Woman Called Golda
Deborah
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Dead End Street
Yaky Yosha's 1982 Israeli drama Kvish Lelo Motza (aka Dead End Street) observes the trials and travails of a young prostitute named Alice (Anat Atzmon) who is thrust into jail alongside her pimp and hustler boyfriend. In desperation, Alice devises a scheme to save both of them: she will take the steps necessary to free herself, then set about raising the money to save her beau. However, she fails to anticipate the arrival of a documentary crew comprised of husband and wife Yoram (Yehoram Gaon) and Miri (Gila Almagor), who insist on filming her as she undergoes rehabilitation; when Yoram begins to fall hard for Alice, it draws the ire and chagrin of Miri, who begins to seethe with jealousy.
First Love
The ex-lover of a middle class woman appears on her birthday after 20 years. Both the mother and the daughter are romantically attracted to him.
A Thin Line
Paula
Explores the relationship between an eleven-year-old daughter and her ailing mother, who is losing a grasp of reality in the surrounding environment of insensitivity and cruelty.
Mi madre, la general
Ella tiene dos hijos, un esposo y un gran corazón. Uno de sus hijos es un oficial destinado al Cuerpo de Tanques en algún lugar del Desierto del Sinaí. El otro hijo es paracaidista en el norte.
Hide and Seek
Twelve year-old Uri reports his teacher Balaban as a suspected spy when he observes him meeting with a young arab man. Only later does he discover that Balaban's interest in the young arab is romantic rather than political.
Save the Lifeguard
Comedy about day to day life of a Gordon beach lifeguard and his friends.
Operación relámpago
Nurit Aviv
Narra la historia real del secuestro de un avión de pasajeros de Air France por un grupo de terroristas, la reclusión y posterior rescate de los rehenes.
The Spy Who Never Was
Amina
A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing him, but instead they set their sights on the wrong man. Left in the wake of their mistaken pursuit is a trail of broken lives and brutal murders.
The House on Chelouche Street
Clara
A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
Escape to the Sun
The Judge
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives
The Highway Queen
Writer
A story of a street walker, who tries to leave the world of prostitution when she gets pregnant.
The Highway Queen
Margalit
A story of a street walker, who tries to leave the world of prostitution when she gets pregnant.
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.
Siege
Tamar
Story of a war-widow pressured by her friends to behave in the role of the heroic widow, and the journey she takes in a country of people under siege.
Ervinka
Ruti
A good-natured but incorrigible layabout becomes embroiled in a plot to rob the Israeli lottery, all the while indulging in his boundless zeal for mischief and romance.
Fortuna
Margot
Directed by Menahem Golan.
Trunk to Cairo
Yasmin
Audie plays a James Bond-type action hero assigned to destroy a Neo-Nazy weapons factory headed by nemesis George Sanders.
Sallah
Bathsheva Sosialit
Sallah Shabati, el patriarca de la gran familia recién llegada a Israel procedente de Yemen, intenta ganar dinero y conseguir mejores viviendas, en un país que apenas puede mantenerse a sí mismo y está en medio de la absorción de cientos de miles de refugiados judíos de países árabes.
El Dorado
Directed by Menahem Golan.
What a Gang
Directed by Zeev Havatzelet.
Burning Sands
A little group of people in Israel decides to track down a treasure which, according to the legend, is placed in the city of Petra in the kingdom of Jordan. No man ever survived this treasurehunt "to the other side" (of the Jordan River) before and the adventure ends up with fatal consequences.