Michal Bat-Adam
Also Known As: Michal Breslavy, מיכל בת-אדם
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Afula, Israel
Adult: No
Birthday: March 02, 1945
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Female
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Madame Rosa
Overview: Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-02
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The Impossible Spy
Overview: This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-28
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Daughters, Daughters
Overview: In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1974-06-16
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I Love You Rosa
Overview: This story centers on the Jewish practice that requires an unmarried brother to marry the childless widow of his dead brother. In this story the younger brother is only 12 years old when his brother dies. The requirement is avoided by a legal fiction, but as time passes in the story, the situation changes.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1972-02-12
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The Lover
Overview: Adam is trying to fix his marriage but both his wife Asia and teenage daughter Dafi are too busy with their lovers.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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Atalia
Overview: Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling outcast, she enters into a forbidden affair with her daughter's classmate, Matti, an idealistic 19-year-old rejected by the army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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Eagles Attack At Dawn
Overview: Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison. They organize a rescue operation against the prison. The soldiers must use both cunning and boldness if they are to help their fellow Israelis regain their freedom.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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Rachel's Man
Overview: The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait seven years before they can marry, but fate intervenes as Rachel's sister sleeps with Jacob and bears him a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-01
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The House on Chelouche Street
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Aya: Imagined Autobiography
Overview: Aya is a woman who, since early childhood, has been driven by her father's ambition to see her become successful. Now she is shooting a film and fragments of dreams and fantasy alternate with reality.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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Women
Overview: Love, family expectations, and religion mix in 19th century Jerusalem. Jacob and Rebecca marry; he's a rabbi, she's dutiful and loving. But she has no children. Months become years. Although Jacob is content, his mother reminds everyone she is waiting for a grandson. After 15 years, Rebecca determines that Jacob must take an additional wife, the young and beautiful Sultana. Rebecca fasts and prays, and in a state of near ecstasy, persuades everyone involved and then arranges an elaborate wedding. However, Sultana does not conceive, and Rebecca watches helplessly as Jacob's affection shifts to Sultana. She's near madness and the household is in turmoil. What can Rebecca do now?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-02
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La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd
Overview: Who is Milena whose arrival is announced to Sophie and Nicolas by postcard? The train from Prague brings for three weeks, the time of a visa, this young Czech and his bag stuffed with forbidden texts, marginal films and music. She will strive to make them known with the help of her new friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-12
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The Ambassador
Overview: An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-11
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Moments
Overview: Anne, a Parisian, visits her friend Yola in Tel Aviv, where Yola lives with her husband Avi and their son. There's tension in the air and the attraction between the two women is palpable. Flash back five years to their meeting, on a train to Jerusalem. Yola invites Anne to stay at her hotel, and over the next five days, their friendship builds from talk about their lives to an explosive menage a trois when Avi joins them on fourth day. Back in the present, can Yola have both Avi and Anne, or are the women futilely chasing rainbows?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-13
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Hope I'm in the Frame
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 2017-05-12
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Rita Working Title
Overview: The director writes a script. Characters from her past and characters she meets on the street and elsewhere, sneak into the story and take control of her. As she writes, she sees herself in all female characters and her close friend Gadi, who is an actor by profession, in all male characters. Writing the script gives the director a chance to take a fresh look at the life and destiny she creates, life, which is actually her life, and it gives us a chance to take a look at the sources of inspiration and the creative process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Hanna K.
Overview: Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-07
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Ha-Diber Ha-11
Overview: Bibi, an innocent boy from the countryside, moves in with his grandmother in Tel Aviv. Spoiled by the sensual pleasures of the big city, he soon succeeds as a professional “orgasmologist” and has to stand trial for immorality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1975-09-05
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Magash Hakesef
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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