Vladimir Fridman
Nascimento : 1959-06-20, Kursk, Kurskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Victor Frenkel
Raya and Victor built a shared career as the Soviet Union’s most beloved film dubbers. As the USSR collapses, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent themselves to find employment.
Borys Bartosh
Devastado pela morte da noiva diante de seus olhos em um atentado terrorista, Mitch Rapp dedica-se incansávelmente à vingança, o que chama a atenção da CIA. Recrutado, o descontrolado rapaz é enviado para o rígido treinamento de Stan Hurley, veterano militar que prepara assassinos secretos de atuação internacional e tem sérias ressalvas à avaliação psicológica de Mitch.
Mr. Licht
Durante a guerra em Jerusalém, um garoto cresce em um apartamento lotado de livros dos mais diferentes idiomas. Aos doze anos de idade sua mãe comete suicídio, mudando para sempre a vida da família. Após a tragédia, ele entra para um kibbutz, muda seu nome e começa a trabalhar como escritor, participando ativamente da vida política do país. Adaptação do livro de memórias escrito por Amos Oz.
Vladlen
A comedy set in Ashdod, Israel. Grisha, has almost given up on his dream of opening his own restaurant and serving his specialty dishes. The sudden death of a rich uncle in Russia changes all that. The uncle bequeaths all his money to his only and beloved nephew, so that he may open a restaurant. The problem is that all his life, the uncle was a sworn Communist, and his condition for granting the inheritance is that the restaurant be dedicated the values of Communism. Grisha is indifferent to these values but accepts the condition- he wants to make his dream come true at any price and he's prepares to dedicate the restaurant to any ideology they tell him to - it really doesn't matter. This leads to conflict between Grisha and his father, a failed poet who blames everything on the Soviet regime back in the Old Country.
Mishka
Num prédio antigo no lado errado das ruas, Galia e Eleanor dividem duas coisas: uma parede e uma necessidade de fuga. Galia é uma assassina, forçada contra a sua vontade, a matar para a máfia. Ela anseia por sua liberdade e de voltar a ter a sua filha, que ela deixou na Rússia. Eleanor trabalha na caixa de um mercado, cujo sonho é ganhar na loteria e fugir de seu marido violento. As duas mulheres se unem para agir contra os seus opressores numa luta cheia de ação para a sobrevivência e liberdade.
Only 5 flight hours from Paris, in a working-class suburb of Tel Aviv, two people meet. He is a bred-and-born Israeli and she is a Russian immigrant. He is a taxi driver and she is a music teacher. He has no aspirations. She gave up hers long ago. He is afraid of flying and she is about to fly away. What are the odds of them ending up together?
Viktor the Coach (as Vladimir Freedman)
A group of young immigrants from Soviet Union live in a provincial Israeli town. In their new homeland the only person who follows them closely is the local policeman, family ties are wearing out day by day, and they do everything to mess their lives up, transforming their anxiety to get a new social standing in violence and robbery. Will they be able to build a soccer team and win the local championship? Will sport help them to recover self-esteem and prove to everyone that they are not doomed to live as criminals?
Dr. Alexandr Alexandrov
The Schwartz Dinasty belong to a long tradition of Jewish rabbis. The grandfathers took their faith and turned it into deeds coming to the Land of Israel to start a new life and build a country. Where are their descendants and how are they doing in the Israel of today?
Alex
In the travel to New Delhi to search for his daughter, Alex encounters and experiences things that expose him the world of his daughter.
Placement Office Clerk
Through a mosaic of stories intertwined and created a current picture of the sad social and economic situation in Israel. Mother forced into prostitution to support her son; Blind man must survive after loosing his dog; Son is looking for his rocker father's; Apartment owner complicates his life while entering the underworld...
Volodya
Cohen takes an elliptical approach in telling the story of Pinchas Rutenberg, a visionary, complex, and larger-than-life figure, who, amongst other things, brought electricity to Jewish Palestine in the early 20th century by building a hydroelectric power station in Nahararyim.
Felix
The story of a little town, Givat Zurim, and its lowest-ranked soccer team. The lot for the quarterfinal of the national championship set Beitar Givat Zurim to host no less than Maccabi Tel Aviv, one of the best teams around. Those ten days until the game, and the historical arrival of Maccabi's players, will not be easily forgotten.
Valentin Goldman
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Alik
Three parallel stories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War and about coming together while sealed in a room during the Scud attacks.
While on tour in the West Bank, a small circus troupe from Eastern Europe finds that one of its featured attractions -- its lion -- is missing. The search for the beast draws together an unlikely alliance, but the united effort becomes more complicated as it continues.
Israel's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998