Eli Gorenstein
Biography: Eli Gorenstein (born August 31, 1952) is an Israeli actor, voice actor, director, singer and cellist. Gorenstein was born in Tel Aviv and was raised in Ramat Gan during his childhood. His maternal grandfather was philosopher Felix Weltsch. He went to New York City to study theatre and music and he even holds a master's degree at Tel Aviv University. He began his career sometime during the 1960s and as a theatre actor, he made frequent on-stage collaborations with Zachi Noy. He performed at many theatres across Israel such as the Habima Theatre and the Haifa Theatre. Gorenstein often starred in theatre adaptions of Shakespeare plays as well as the musical theatre. Gorenstein appeared as a guest on children's shows such as Rechov Sumsum (the Israeli production of Sesame Street) and Parpar Nechmad. He also made appearances in movies, most notably the 2007 film Israeli Intelligence and the 2018 film The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch. He often appeared on Zehu Ze! and performed a song on that show alongside Shlomo Gronich. Gorenstein has also had a successful career as a voice actor. He often performed the Hebrew voices of Disney villains as well as sidekicks and supporting characters particularly during the Disney Renaissance period. His roles include Scar from The Lion King, Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Professor Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective, Jafar from Aladdin, Clayton from Tarzan, Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, Eeyore from the Winnie the Pooh franchise, Lumière from Beauty and the Beast, Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog, Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Wolf from Hoodwinked!, Professor Paljas from Alfred J. Kwak, Grimmel from How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and many more. He has frequently collaborated with Rama Messinger, Dov Reiser and Yuval Zamir. Gorenstein is also a singer and musician. He plays the cello and often performs songs in the style of Frank Sinatra. Known for his bass vocal range, he often performs as an opera singer at the New Israeli Opera and he performs jingles for the openings of television shows and commercials. Gorenstein participated in numerous music festivals, including the Israeli Children’s Songs Festival in 1976 in which he came second place. He also worked with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2011, Gorenstein released his debut album, which features the work of artists such as Yoni Rechter, Yehonatan Geffen, Nathan Alterman, Nurit Galron and others. Gorenstein is married and has three children. His daughter Roni, is also an actress. Source: Article "Eli Gorenstein" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Kafka for Kids
2022-01-26
Kafka for Kids
Overview: Basically, Kafka’s Metamorphosis is unfilmable. After all, the author didn’t want visual representations to appear of the insect Gregor Samsa turned into; readers should visualise that themselves.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2022-01-26
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5 and 5
1980-06-06
5 and 5
Overview: A group of soldiers is sent to moshav for a few days of vacation. Or, maybe, not so vacation...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-06
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Hila
2023-09-13
Hila
Overview: Hila is a single mother of a 7-year-old girl named Naomi. Hila discovers that Shaul, her daughter's father, has returned to Israel with his family after years abroad. Shaul does not know that he is Naomi's father and is not even aware of her existence. Hila, who is still obsessively in love with Shaul, tries to talk to him but he avoids her, leading her towards a mental breakdown. When Hila's heart finally opens to another man, she is attacked by anxiety, fearing she will lose Shaul forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2023-09-13
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Urban Tale
2012-06-15
Urban Tale
Overview: A boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children's mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their father leads them to hospitals, nursing homes and holding cells. In the course of the quest the brother and sister meet people who provide them - like in parallel quantum universes - a glance into what their future lives may hold for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2012-06-15
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The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes
2022-05-29
The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes
Overview: A few weeks before the opening of the Eichmann trial, transcripts of recorded conversations that Adolf Eichmann had with a Dutch Nazi journalist, Willem Sassen, were mysteriously handed over to prosecutor Gideon Hausner. The conversations were held a few years before Eichmann was brought to Israel by the Mossad. During the trial, Eichmann tried to convince that he was only a bureaucrat who carried out orders, but in the transcripts, Eichmann was found boasting and proud of his significant role in planning and executing the Final Solution. For the first time, we will confront Eichmann with himself in full color, revealing the hidden factors and motives that succeeded in hiding these recordings.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-29
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The Emperor's New Clothes
1987-05-15
The Emperor's New Clothes
Overview: In Europe several several centuries ago, a group of prisoners about to be executed are freed as part of the celebration of the upcoming marriage of the emperor's daughter, Princess Gilda, to a very rich prince from another country. Sid Caesar composed the song "Clothes Make the Man". Ran 93 minutes on German TV.
Genres: Comedy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-15
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Hanna's War
1988-04-14
Hanna's War
Overview: Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, however, leads to her capture, torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-14
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Antenna
2016-09-21
Antenna
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2016-09-21
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Alaska
2018-01-01
Alaska
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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The Man in the Wall
2015-01-22
The Man in the Wall
Overview: One night, one apartment and one mystery. Shir wakes up in the middle of the night. Her husband hasn’t come back after taking the dog out. The dog has. But where is Rami? Friends, relatives, neighbours and police come round and with each visit more marital secrets are revealed.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
2018-07-05
The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
Overview: The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him, because they all look just like her. The situation gets even more complicated, when Motti secretly falls in love with the non-Jewish girl Laura, a so-called Shiksa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-07-05
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Ella's Men
2017-08-08
Ella's Men
Overview: In the range between autobiography and fiction, male & female - Ella nurses, dancing and waiting for her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2017-08-08
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Israeli Intelligence
2007-01-01
Israeli Intelligence
Overview: Rami Haruvi, a daring Mossad Agent, is sent to rescue the abducted US ambassador held at the state of Sugyra. If Rami fails his mission, the annual mossad vacation at "Olga Resort" will be canceled. Due to the importance of the mission, Hayim, the Head of the Mossad decides to assign Rami a new agent to his mission - the daughter of a mythological Mossad agent named Shuki, a ladies' man and Rami's role model. The two are getting into trouble both in their mission and relationship. Are the Americans good? Are the terrorist bad? Yet none of it compares to the real important question: will Hayim get his longed annual vacation at the Olga Resort?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Saving Neta
2017-06-29
Saving Neta
Overview: Directed by multi-award winner Nir Bergman (Broken Wings), Saving Neta tells the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta. Humour, drama, love and hope, a powerful and moving portrait of family relationships and parenthood in modern life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2017-06-29
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What the Hell?
2024-05-01
What the Hell?
Overview: Eyal and Shani are close friends who wish to get closer, but their incapability to act on it leads them to a crazy adventure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2024-05-01
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Kafka's Last Trial
2025-01-06
Kafka's Last Trial
Overview: After Franz Kafka's passing, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts with explicit instructions for his close friend Max Brod to destroy them. Despite Kafka's wishes, Brod chose to preserve and publish the works, introducing the world to one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. This act of benevolent betrayal set forth a multi-generational saga that spans a century and ends with a real-life Kafkaesque trial.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2025-01-06
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Waitress - The Musical: Cameri
2023-12-24
Waitress - The Musical: Cameri
Overview: Jenna is a young waitress and expert in making pies who lives in a small, desolate town. Her daily life is marked by the same hours, the same customers, among the cooking pots and frying pans, a colorless life with no dreams along with a forced pregnancy by a husband she’s stopped loving a long time ago. The arrival of a young doctor in town brings a new taste to Jenna’s life and to the life of her two waitress friends.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-24
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