Sasson Gabai
Also Known As: ששון גבאי
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sasson Gabai (also Sasson Gabay) - is an Israeli actor, Jewish and originally from Iraq. He works in Israeli cinema. He has won Award of the Israeli Film Academy, Asia Pacific Screen Award, European Film Awards and Jerusalem Film Festival in 2007 as Best Actor in a highly acclaimed Israeli film "The Band's Visit". He is leading and prolific actors in Israel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sasson Gabai , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baghdad, Iraq
Birthday: November 24, 1947
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Gender: Male
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Rambo III
Overview: Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-24
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The Band's Visit
Overview: A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2007-09-13
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Made in Israel
Overview: Two pairs of assassins are sent by a holocaust survivor's son to bring the last Nazi for a show trial in Israel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2001-09-27
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Aviva, My Love
Overview: Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to Oded, an accomplished novelist. Immediately recognizing Aviva's talent, Oded takes her under his wing, promising to help her achieve greatness. But the journey to greatness effects her life and the lives of her family - her unemployed husband, her trouble children, her unstable mother, and primarily her sister, a funny and sensitive woman who have her own dreams. When Aviva discovered that Oded has other plans for her work, her world collapses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Deadline
Overview: An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-02
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Black Notebooks
Overview: With this two-part feature documentary, Shlomi Elkabetz shares a poignant love letter to his sister, the late actress and director Ronit Elkabetz, and delivers a rare cinematic experience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2021-07-07
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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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Year Zero
Overview: 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 losing his dog; Son is looking for his rocker father's; Apartment owner complicates his life while entering the underworld...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2004-06-06
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When Pigs Have Wings
Overview: After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting: imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2011-09-21
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Restoration
Overview: A drama about a family's effort to save their antique restoration business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2011-08-25
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Blink of an Eye
Overview: An agent with psychic powers comes to the rescue of the kidnapped daughter of the CIA director.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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The Order
Overview: When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police chief. Now, to find his dad and recover a sacred scroll, he'll have to outwit officials and a ruthless sect. With the help of a beautiful Israeli cop, Rudy battles a faction of religious zealots determined to see a holy war at all costs.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-05
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Karaoke
Overview: Meir (Sasson Gabay of The Band’s Visit and Shtisel) and Tova (Rita Shukrun) are a long-married couple living in an upscale high-rise in Tel Aviv. Itzik (Lior Ashkenazi) is their new neighbor, a worldly modeling agent and bachelor. The couple attend Itzik’s karaoke parties and soon become obsessed with him, competing with each other, and other residents of the building, for his attention.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2022-09-29
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Hunting Elephants
Overview: In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for cheating the youngster after the death of his father.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2013-07-03
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The Quarry
Overview: Israel, Fifties... Two men are fighting for the love of one woman in the quarry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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Steal the Sky
Overview: An Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.
Genres: Action Romance War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Kidon
Overview: "Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It was the first time that simple security cameras of a hotel caught secret agents red-handed, what's more Israeli agents. But without doubt, the most surprised of all were the Mossad leaders who were the only ones to know for sure that the 3 men and the woman, whose faces were in all the newsrooms of the world, had nothing to do with them. From then on, a race against time is undertaken hoping to understand why everything is aiming at them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2013-08-24
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Overview: The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2014-06-25
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Hello Goodbye
Overview: French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis. Following a dream vacation to Israel where Alain (Depardieu) explores his Jewish roots, Gisèle (Ardant) insists they change their life and move to Tel Aviv. While Gisèle, a Jewish convert, finds her new life inspiring; Alain fights to embrace Hebrew, Jewish tradition and a new circumcision. Will Alain and Gisèle learn whether Shalom represents Hello or Goodbye?
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-26
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Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol
Overview: An elite commando unit must rescue a captured peacekeeping force from a ruthless international arms dealer.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-05
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The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Overview: Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-09
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The Kind Words
Overview: Follows three brothers who are going to discover the greatest secret of their late mother. This trip is going to change their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-28
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Bliss
Overview: Sassi is more than 20 years older than his wife Effi and is worried about his declining powers. Surgery has left him seeking treatment for impotence, but Effi insists she’s content with their emotional closeness. In her work as a physical therapist, though, Effi sees the link between body and heart every day. The biggest challenge to their loving relationship has been the gambling debts Sassi’s adult son keeps running up. But the couple’s fragile understanding, compounded by the presence of two young men, introduces new threats. Their teenage grandson, Omri, returns from living with his father in Europe, at loose ends and clearly in need of guidance. For one thing, he can barely stand to wear a shirt. Then a young patient turns up at the swimming pool where Effi conducts therapy sessions. He comes to confront her about something from their past, something complicated, contested, and painful to them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2024-06-06
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Il était une fois... « Le procès de Viviane Amsalem »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-29
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The Angel
Overview: True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
Genres: Action Drama History Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-15
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Escape: Human Cargo
Overview: An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due to the US policy of noninterference in SA, the embassy won't help him. He must escape.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-22
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The Other Story
Overview: Two rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom - cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2018-10-25
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The Patriots
Overview: Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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A Brother’s Love
Overview: Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s life significantly alters their dynamic.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-06-07
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Abu Eli
Overview: The friendship between Avi, a former drug addict, and Jaber, a Sudanese refugee, is in danger. It is Jabber's last day before being sent to Holot Detention Facility, and Avi decides to take matters into his own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2019-06-23
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Oslo
Overview: The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-29
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Not Without My Daughter
Overview: An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-11
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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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Where Life Begins
Overview: An ultra-orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in southern Italy for a brief stay every year to carry out a sacred mission: harvesting citrons. Here Elio, the farm owner, meets Esther, the rabbi’s daughter, who is tired of the constraints imposed by her religion. Through this relationship, Esther will understand the importance of freedom and find her path, and, in the same way, Elio will find the peace he had lost for a long time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-16
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My Daughter My Love
Overview: Shimon, a 70-year-old widower, travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daughter and discovers that her marriage is falling apart. He decides to help. In the process, he finds out that he and his daughter share both dreams and desires of which they had been previously unaware.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2023-07-18
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Antigone
Overview: There was war, as always. A war of brothers. Now it's over. The time has come to praise the fallen and denounce the traitors. Two of Antigone's brothers fell in the war, one was declared a hero and received a state funeral, the other a traitor. His body was abandoned without a grave, food for the birds of the sky. According to King Creon's order, anyone who tries to bury him - will be killed. Antigone, armed with a shovel and a conscience, sets out alone to fight against the law and for the heart and ignites a battle between morality and politics, between family and people, between a young girl and an old ruler.
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 2024-07-29
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