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DESCRIPTION : Up for auction is an over 55 years old EXCEPTIONALY RARE and ORIGINAL Jewish - Judaica MOVIE POSTER for the ISRAEL 1963 PREMIERE of the legendary ISRAELI FILM , One of the milestones of ISRAELI FILM MAKING and ISRAELI CULTURE and ENTERTAINMENT , The film gathers in its creation the most legenday influential names in ISRAELI CULTURE  . The film " ELDORADO - EL-DORADO" ( " אלדורדו" ) Starrig the top row of ISRAEL THEATRE and FILM actors , Legendary names like : CHAIM TOPOL , GILA ALMAGOR, And the late SHAIKE OPHIR to name only a few  , Written , Produced and directed by the legenday producer and director MENAHEM GOLANSherman( TOPOL )  is a criminal who grew up with billiards and gambling, but now has fallen in love and is trying to rehabilitate himself.  However, he finds the path to honesty strewn with obstacles in this classic first movie directed by a young Menahem Golan, who would go on to be one of Israel's most acclaimed directors, and a major producer and director in Hollywood also .The film projection took place in the small rural town of NATHANYA ( Also Natania ) in ERETZ ISRAEL. The cinema-movie hall " CINEMA SHARON" ( A legendary Israeli Cinema Paradiso ) was printing manualy its own posters , And thus you can be certain that this surviving copy is ONE OF ITS KIND.  Text in HEBREW . Please note : This is NOT a re-release poster but a PREMIERE - FIRST RELEASE projection of the film , Together with its release in other Israeli towns and cities . The ISRAELI distributors of the film have given it an INTERESTING and quite archaic and amusing advertising and promoting accompany text , Very naive and poetic - Typical to these very early years in the existance of the Independent State of Israel and the first steps in Israel film making .Size around 27" x 38" ( Not accurate ) . Printed in red and blue on plain white paper paper . The condition is very good . 2 light folding signs. ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images )  Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.

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When a man is framed for a crime he didn't commit, his socially intimidated lawyer is reluctant to take the case. The barrister finally agrees, but does nothing to help in his defense. Political pressure is exerted to find the man guilty, and the guilty man is blackmailed into really committing a crime when the punishment is of lesser consequence than the first offense with which he is charged. The accused becomes even more determined to prove his innocence and become an accepted member of the social elite. Hayim Topol (Fiddler on the Roof) , Shayke Ofir (Israel's best comedian) & Gila Almagor in a smashing story about the life of Tel-Aviv Organized Crime leader that wants to leave his crime life and become a normal citizen. Chaim Topol (Hebrew: חיים טופול‎; born September 9, 1935), often billed simply as Topol, is an Israeli theatrical and film performer, singer, actor, writer and producer. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and a Tony Award, and has won two Golden Globe Awards. Early life Topol was born in Tel Aviv in 1935 in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine, to Rel (née Goldman) and Jacob Topol.[1] He first practised acting in amateur theatrical plays staged by the Israeli Army. Subsequently he established his own theatre troupe in Tel Aviv, and in 1961 he significantly contributed to the foundation of the Haifa Municipal Theatre. Acting career Among Topol's earliest film appearances was the lead role in the 1964 film Sallah Shabati by Ephraim Kishon — a play, later adapted for film, depicting the hardships of a Mizrahi Jewish immigrant family in Israel of the early 1960s. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and earned the actor the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor. In 1966, Topol made his first English-language screen appearance as Abou Ibn Kaqden in the big-budget Mickey Marcus biopic Cast a Giant Shadow. He came to greatest prominence in the role of Tevye the milkman in the long-running musical show Fiddler on the Roof, at Her Majesty's Theatre.[2] After a major success on the West End stage, he later starred in the 1971 film version. In 1972, Topol won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in the film. He was on active service with the Israeli Army at the time, but was granted permission to attend the awards ceremonies.[3] In 1976, Topol originated the leading role of the baker, Amiable, in the new musical The Baker's Wife, but was fired after eight months by producer David Merrick. In her autobiography, Patti LuPone: A Memoir, his co-star in the production relayed that Topol behaved unprofessionally in front of paying audiences, sometimes speaking gibberish instead of his lines, and other times responding to the director's instructions by grossly overacting on purpose. Her account was echoed by the show's composer, Stephen Schwartz, in the book Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, From Godspell to Wicked, in which he claimed that Topol's behavior greatly disturbed the cast and directors and resulted in the production not reaching Broadway as planned. Some of Topol's other notable film appearances were the title role in Galileo (1975), Dr. Hans Zarkov in Flash Gordon (1980), and as Milos Columbo in the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only (1981).[4] In 1983, he reprised the role of Tevye in a London revival of Fiddler on the Roof. In the late 1980s, he played the role in a touring United States production. He was by then the approximate age of the character. Also, the actress playing his wife, Golde, in that production—Rosalind Harris—had played his eldest daughter, Tzeitel, in the film. In 1990, he again played the part in a Broadway revival of Fiddler, and was nominated in 1991 for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, losing to Jonathan Pryce. He played the part again in a 1994 London revival, which became a touring production. He has since played the part in various productions including stages in Europe, Australia and Japan. His most recent film roles were in Left Luggage (1998) in the role of Mr. Apfelschnitt, and Time Elevator (1998) as Shalem. In November 2005, Topol had a two-month season once again playing Tevye in Fiddler On the Roof at Capitol Theatre in Sydney, Australia and in April 2007, played the role in Wellington, New Zealand. In September 2008, Topol played the part of Honore in Gigi at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. On January 20, 2009, Topol began a farewell tour of Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye, opening in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He was forced to withdraw from the tour owing to a shoulder injury, and made his last appearance as Tevye in Boston, Massachusetts on November 15, 2009. (Theodore Bikel and Harvey Fierstein, both of whom have portrayed Tevye on Broadway, replaced him in scheduled appearances.) [5] Author His autobiography, Chaim Topol on Topol, was published in London and Israel. Topol is also an illustrator, responsible for drawings in several books, including A Treasury of Jewish Humour. Charitable work Topol serves as chairman of the board of Jordan River Village.[6] At one time Israel's most popular film personality, Topol first learned to act in amateur theatricals while serving in the Army. Back in civilian clothes, Topol established a satirical theatre troupe in Tel Aviv, and in 1961 was one of the founding members of the Municipal Theatre of Haifa. He appeared in his first film in 1964, and two years later made his English-language screen bow as Abou Ibn Kaden in the big-budget Mickey Marcus biopic Cast a Giant Shadow (1966). His chief claim to fame is his portrayal of Tevye the Milkman in the long-running musical Fiddler on the Roof; he scored an enormous success in this role on the London stage, then earned an Academy Award nomination for his interpretation of Tevye in the 1971 film version of Fiddler. While criticized in some circles for relying upon "cute" acting tricks, Topol has managed to retain his stardom--and his home-grown fan following--for over three decades. Some of Topol's most notable post-Fiddler roles have included the title character in Brecht's Galileo (1975), Dr. Zarkhov in 1980's Flash Gordon and Berel Jastrow in the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War and its 1987 sequel War and Remembrance. Zestful, vigorous lead and supporting player, best known for his Tevye in the screen version of "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971)--a role he had previously played on the Tel Aviv and London stage. Since then Topol has worked primarily in the theater, making infrequent appearances in such films as "Before Winter Comes" (1968), "The Public Eye" (1972), "Galileo" (1974) and the James Bond actioner "For Your Eyes Only" (1980) and on TV in "Winds of War" (1982) and "War and Remembrance" (1988). It is not every week that two legends of the Israeli cinema come to town. Last Monday, Topol was at Town Hall in Manhattan for “Raising the Roof,” the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene’s tribute to fifty years of “Fiddler on the Roof,” honoring lyricist Sheldon Harnick. (The Jewish Standard ran a preview of this performance on May 16. The Folksbiene’s artistic director, Zalmen Mlotek, lives in Teaneck.)The 78 year-old Topol is known for his portrayal of Tevye in Norman Jewison’s 1971 film adaptation of the stage classic. On stage on Monday, Topol sang an a cappella version of “If I Were a Rich Man.” The rendition held the audience spellbound. It was absolutely brilliant.Others appearing at the wonderful gala event were many of the actors who played a variety of roles in various film and stage versions of “Fiddler.” (There also were some inevitable disappointments. The film’s director, Mr. Jewison, and Bel Kaufman, the 103-year-old granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem, who wrote the Tevye stories, were set to appear as well. But Ms. Kaufman took a fall a week before the show, and Mr. Jewison’s flight never made it out of Los Angeles. They were missed.)Three days later, at the opening of the JCC of Manhattan’s Israel Film Festival, Yehoram Gaon was honored for lifetime achievement in Israeli cinema. The renowned vocalist has acted in many Israeli movies, and he has produced musical film documentaries that have warmed the hearts of Israelis and Jews across the world these last 40 years. After being introduced by Academy-Award nominated director Joseph Cedar, the 74 year-old Mr. Gaon told the audience that the occasion truly was special. In Israel, he said, artists generally are recognized only when they are being eulogized.Mr. Gaon admitted that he initially refused Mr. Cedar’s request to take a small role in a 2004 film, “Campfire,” but was convinced when the director sent him a bouquet of flowers, along with a note that said that some famous actors, like Frank Sinatra, had achieved greatness in their smaller film roles. Mr. Cedar noted that Yehoram Gaon represented “the collective identity of a nation.” I totally agree with that statement.Both Chaim Topol and Yehoram Gaon gained attention as film actors in Israel in the 1960s. Topol had parts in two early 1960s films, “I Like Mike” and “El Dorado,” but his big break came with the 1964 “Sallah Shabbati” and his brilliant portrayal of an immigrant from North Africa who arrives in Israel with his wife and pack of children. The film, written and directed by Ephraim Kishon, was nominated for an Oscar and won the Golden Globe for best foreign–language film, with Topol winning a Golden Globe for “most promising newcomer.” For the fiftieth anniversary of its release, a restored print of “Sallah” is to be shown in mid-July at the Jerusalem Film Festival and it is hinted that it will be broadcast on TCM: Turner Movie Classics as part of its upcoming September television series, “The Projected Image-The Jewish Experience on Film.”“Sallah” was the first Israeli film to attract any real attention in this country, and Jews across America walked a little taller when they saw it on movie theater marquees.Two years later, Topol was playing Abou ibn Kader in Melville Shavelson’s “Cast A Giant Shadow.”Meanwhile, Yehoram Gaon, after leaving the army and the Nachal Entertainment Troupe, joined with Arik Einstein and Benny Amdursky to form a singing group called “Shlishiat Gesher Hayarkon” (Gesher Bridge Trio). Not so coincidentally, Mr. Einstein had performed with Topol in “Batzal Yarok” (Green Onion). Mr. Einstein, who died earlier this year, would later form “Chalonot Hagvohim” (The High Windows) and become one of Israel’s great songwriters, actors and vocalists; Mr. Amdursky, who died in 1994, had been part of the group called “the Dudaim,” along with Israel Gurion.Mr. Gaon’s first film role was with Mr. Einstein and Mr. Amdursky in the 1964 “Dalia Vehamalachim” (Dalia and the Sailors).While Topol, a Jew of Ashkenazi descent, was playing a Sephardi in “Sallah” and an Arab in “Cast A Giant Shadow,” Mr. Gaon, whose parents came from Turkey and Macedonia, seized on the opportunity to play a Moroccan in “Kazablan,” a stage role he was offered while studying acting in New York in 1967. “Kazablan” would change the actor/vocalist’s life; as he told me, he took on the part of this Sephardi Israeli, portrayed in the movie as a second-class citizen, as a lifetime role.To this day, people greet him in the streets of Israel by calling out “Kaza!” and he waves back with pride.Mr. Gaon’s stage performance brought him immediate acclaim. He also has become an advocate for Sephardic music, and the Ladino romanceros that he recorded remain favorites today.How interesting it is that both of these legends took their stage roles and turned them into two great cinematic performances. Topol came off the London stage as Tevye to star in Mr. Jewison’s adaptation of the play, and Mr. Gaon played Kazablan in Menachem Golan’s 1974 film version of the stage original.Yehoram Gaon still performs, his music is a staple of Israeli radio, and he takes pride in being a citizen and spokesperson for the city of Jerusalem. Mr. Gaon’s 1971 “Ani Yerushalmi” (I Was Born in Jerusalem) has him traveling on a carriage through the streets of the city, performing a variety of magnificent songs that were written by Dov Seltzer and Haim Hefer. In his 1989 “From Toledo to Jerusalem,” Mr. Gaon traces his Sephardic roots in Ladino song and narration; five years ago, he made “No Longer from Jerusalem.”His achievements include playing Eli in the 1969 classic “Siege,” the part of Yonatan Netanyahu in Menachem Golan’s 1977 “Operation Thunderbolt,” and Yoram in the 1982 television series called “Krovim, Krovim.” He and his good friend Gila Almagor have been doing a great deal of theater together lately; he also appears in concert. I still remember when Mr. Gaon performed the song “Rosa” from Kazablan at the 1975 Golden Globe Awards. It was one of those special moments, watching the Israeli crooner on television across the world, zeroing in on an adoring Jean Stapleton, who was there as a nominee for her portrayal of Edith in the television hit “All in the Family.”Topol has had a brilliant acting career, and his performance at the Folksbiene gala makes it clear that he still can belt it out. The actor reprised his Tevye role in 1990 on Broadway; it is impossible to forget the incredible gymnastics he performed onstage. After “Fiddler” and “Cast a Giant Shadow,” his most memorable roles were in Mr. Kishon’s 1967 “Ervinka,” the 1979 made-for-television “The House on Garibaldi Street,” his role as Berel Jastrow in the 1983 and 1989 TV miniseries “The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance,” and his incredible performance as Yacov Apfelschnitt in Jeroen Krabbe’s 1998 “Left Luggage,” a personal favorite. In 1979, Topol also was involved in creating the “New Media Bible”; he played the role of Abraham.Topol and Yehoram Gaon represent the best that classic Israeli cinema has to present. They deserve our praise, and all the honors bestowed on them. Both men were pioneers, and they remain vibrant forces in creating the new Jewish culture that was the dream of the country’s pioneers. Gila Almagor (Hebrew: גילה אלמגור‎; born Gila Alexandrowitz; July 22, 1939) is an Israeli actress, film star, and author. In Israel she is known as "queen of the Israeli cinema and theatre".Gila Almagor was born four months after the death of her father, Max Alexandrowitz, a Jewish immigrant from Germany who was killed by an Arab sniper while working as a policeman in Haifa. Almagor grew up caring for her mother, Henya, who was slowly losing her sanity after realising that all her family in Germany had perished in the Holocaust.[1] When her mother was institutionalized in 1954, Almagor was sent to Hadassim youth village.Two years later, she moved to Tel Aviv, rented a room near Habima Theatre and applied to acting school. Although she was underage, she was accepted.[2]At the age of 17, Almagor debuted in Habima's production of The Skin of Our Teeth.[3] Her autobiographical books Summer of Aviya and Under the Domim Tree were both made into films, with Almagor playing her own mother. She is married to Yaakov Agmon, former director of the Habima Theatre.[3] They have two children.[1]Stage, film and televisionAlmagor has played leading roles in many plays, among them Anne Frank, Jeanne d'Arc, The Crucible, Three Sisters, The Bride and the Butterfly Hunt, They Were All My Children and Medea. She has appeared in over 40 films, including "Siege", "Queen of the Road", "The House on Chelouche Street", "El Dorado", "Life According to Agfa" and "The Summer of Aviya." [2]Almagor starred as the mother of Avner, the main character in the 2005 film Munich. She also appears in The Debt, about a former Mossad agent who comes back to kill an escaped Nazi doctor. In 2008 she played the role of Lolah Baum in the 100-episode serial Dani Hollywood, broadcast on the Yes satellite network. In 2005, Almagor played a therapist in the award-winning Israeli television series BeTipul.Charity work and public serviceAlmagor founded the Gila Almagor Wish Fund, a charity for sick children and co-founded AMI – the Israeli Artist Association. She currently serves as chair of cultural activities in the City Council of Tel Aviv and many other boards to promote the arts for children and in efforts to make international exchange between the Israeli performing arts world and abroad.[4]Awards and critical acclaimAlmagor has received 10 Kinor David awards for her work in film and theater.She received the Life Achievement Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 1996, a Life Achievement Award from the Israeli Academy of Cinema in 1997, and the Silver Bear award for best actress in Summer of Aviya at the Berlin Film Festival. In 1993 she was a member of the jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.[5] In 1996 she was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.[6] In 1990, she was chosen Actress of the Decade by Yediot Ahronoth and the Israel Film Institute.[1] In 2004, she was awarded the Israel Prize, for cinema.[7][8] In 2005, she received a Hans Christian Andersen Ambassadorship. In 2007, she was awarded the Liberitas Film Festival Prize for Lifetime Achievement (Croatia). In 2009, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University awarded her an honorary doctorate.[9]Writer and actress of stage and screen, Gila Almagor was born in Israel in 1940. When her parents married, they lived in Haifa, where her father, Max Alexandrowitz, an immigrant from Germany, was a policeman. Shortly after the marriage, when his wife was five months pregnant, he was killed by an Arab sniper. Alone in Palestine, his widow was left with a young child to raise. An additional burden was added when it became clear that her entire family had been murdered in the Holocaust, leaving her to bear the guilt of having survived while they perished. Gila, an only child, grew up caring for her mother, who was slowly losing her grip on reality. When her mother was permanently institutionalized in 1954, Gila was sent to the Hadassim youth village where the other students were children of Holocaust survivors or of recent immigrants to the country. At the age of fifteen, Almagor left the youth village to go to Tel Aviv to become an actress. She studied at the Habimah Theater’s Drama School and after an internship there, was accepted into the company in 1956. In 1958 she moved to the Cameri Theater, where she worked until 1963 and again, after a visit abroad, from 1965. While she was affiliated with the Cameri Theater she became one of Israel’s leading ladies of the stage, appearing in plays at every Israeli theater. She later began working in film and has continued to work simultaneously both in theater and film throughout her entire career. She has appeared in approximately forty Israeli feature films, dozens of stage plays and television dramas. Her starring roles in films include Siege, 1969; Highway Queen, 1971; House on Chelouche Street, 1973; My Mother the General, 1979; Summer of Aviya, 1988; Life According to Agfa, 1992; Sh’chur, 1994; and Passover Fever, 1995. For many years, Gila Almagor accepted her media image as a Jew of Moroccan descent, a misperception which emerged from the many and varied roles she played in Israeli films. She had actually been hiding her true family background. During the 1980s, Almagor, now a mature woman, began to come to terms with her own past. In 1986, she published an autobiographical novel for young adults, which told the story of her special relationship with her Holocaust survivor mother. The book, which became a bestseller, was translated into sixteen languages and made part of the official school curriculum in Israel. Almagor adapted it into a one-woman theatrical performance and later into an award-winning film, The Summer of Aviya. Almagor's portrayal of her mother, Henya, is remarkable for its depth and its shifts of mood and temperament. Forever tortured by her memories, Henya is a woman with a number on her arm whose erratic behavior is a burden for her ten-year-old daughter. The film was highly acclaimed and brought about a form of group therapy for an entire generation of Israelis who previously had not been able to discuss openly the ridicule that Holocaust survivors endured during the early years of the state. As the film won more and more press attention, new information emerged. Israelis were shocked to learn that Almagor’s mother was not actually a survivor of the Holocaust. Rather, she had come to Palestine before the war, leaving behind all of her relatives, who later died in the extermination camps of Europe. Her feelings of guilt at having left her family behind and self-deprecation for not having suffered like them brought about her mental breakdown. Compelled to explain this complicated phenomenon to her Israeli film-going public—a phenomenon which she had been unable to discuss in Summer of Aviya—Almagor wrote a second book and produced the film Under the Domim Tree in 1995. In this sequel, Aviya is now a teenager living in a school for child survivors and orphans. As she visits and cares for her mother, she begs her for a few words about her past, about her relatives, about her own long-dead father, whom she never knew. But her mother is so lost in the past that she cannot even heed the emotional needs of her daughter. As a performing artist, Gila Almagor has chosen to expose her own story, which was so difficult to articulate even as she passed into adulthood. Since 1963 she has been married to Ya’akov Agmon, erstwhile artistic and general manager of the Habimah National Theater. They have two children. In 1981 she was one of the founders of the Israeli Union of the Performing Artists. In 1998 she was elected to the City Council of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, where she holds the portfolio of Arts and Cultural Affairs. She is the president and one of the initiators of the International Film Festival of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, first held in Spring, 2002. Almagor is also the founder of the Gila Almagor Wishes Foundation, a non-profit organization which works for the welfare of children with terminal diseases. Her third book, Alex Lerner, Dafi and Me, was published by Am Oved in 2002. Gila Almagor was the daughter of a father who was policeman in the British Army and a mother who was mentally ill. Almagor never saw her father as he was killed by an Arab sniper when her mother was five months pregnant. Her mother later remarried.At the age of 13 Almagor was sent to the "Hadassim" Youth Village where she was educated for two years. When she decided to fulfill her dream of becoming an actress she moved to Tel Aviv, rented a room near to the "Habima" Theatre and presented herself at the entrance examinations for the drama school. Despite the fact that she was not yet 17 years old and that the examinations were meant for those who had finished army service, she was accepted. Her premiere performance was on her seventeenth birthday, in the play "The Skin of Our Teeth". From the "Habima" Theatre Almagor moved to the "Cameri" Theatre and 8 years later she traveled to study acting in New York. Since her return to Israel in 1965 she has worked as an freelance actress.Almagor has played leading roles in many productions, including "Anne Frank", "Jeanne d'Arc", "The Crucible", "Three Sisters", "The Bride and the Butterfly Hunt", "They Were All My Children" and "Medea". Throughout her professional career Almagor has appeared in more than 40 films including "Siege", "Queen of the Road", "The House on Chelouche Street", "Life According to Agfa" and "The Summer of Aviya" and has also appeared in television series.In 1987 she published her book "The Summer of Aviya", based on her personal biography. This book has been translated into numerous languages and has had widespread success. Later Almagor appeared in a one-man show by this name which was performed hundreds of times and was awarded the Rubina Prize. She also transformed the book into a movie which has represented Israel at important film festival worldwides and won international prizes.He second book, "Under the Domim Tree", which was published in June 1992 also garnered widespread success and was made into a movie that in 1995 won the Vulgin Prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival.Almagor was one of the founders of Ami (the Israeli Artists Association) and served as the spokesperson and deputy chairperson of the organization for ten years. She serves as the president of ASSITEJ Israeli - the Israeli branch of the Association of Theatre for Children and Young People and as a judge at international film festivals. Today Almagor serves as a member of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council and as chairperson of the Culture Committee for the city.Almagor has been awarded many local and international prizes for her roles in the realm of cinema and theatre and in November 1997 she received the Israeli Oscar for her contribution to Israeli cinema. In 1999 she also received an honorary award for her life's work at the international film festival in Haifa.Throughout her life Gila Almagor has been involved in widespread voluntary work: she established the "Gila Almagor Wishes Foundation" - a non-profit organization that supports sick children and fulfils their wishes. She also serves as the head of the Tel Aviv branch of the Israeli Cancer Association. In July 1996 she received the President's Merit Award for Volunteers as recognition for her fourteen years of voluntary work. Shaike Ophir (November 4, 1929 – August 17, 1987; Hebrew: שייקה אופיר‎) was an Israeli film actor and comedian, and the country's first mime. Yishayahu (Shaike) Goldstein-Ophir was born in Jerusalem. His family roots in the city go back to the mid-19th century. He studied acting as an adolescent, but left school in the 1940s to join the Palmach. During Israel’s War of Independence he escorted convoys to the besieged city of Jerusalem, and took part in naval battles. Ophir, a heavy smoker, died from lung cancer in 1987. Ophir was married twice and had two children, one from each spouse. His daughter, Karin Ophir, is also an actress. Acting career Thanks to his comic skills he was accepted to the Chezbatron, an army entertainment troupe. In the 1950s, he made a name for himself as a multi-talented performer. He had even recorded a few hit songs during this period.During the late 1950s and early 1960s Ophir occasionally guest-starred in American TV shows such as Shirley Temple's Storybook and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Ophir acted in 28 films, wrote, directed and starred in several variety shows and was an accomplished mime, appearing alongside Marcel Marceau He reached the peak of his international fame in the title role of Ha-Shoter Azoulay (literally, Policeman Azoulay, translated as The Policeman), a film-vehicle by Ephraim Kishon which won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign-Language Film (1972) and was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Academy Award the same year. He also starred in other Ephraim Kishon films, including Ervinka, Blaumilch Canl and The Fox in the Chicken Coop, and the 1973 Moshé Mizrahi film Daughters, Daughters.In 1985, Ophir starred in a stage adaptation of Janusz Korczak's children's novel King Matt the First, where he played seven different roles. The children's play was very successful and ran for three years. Over this period Ophir was diagnosed with lung cancer, to which he succumbed in 1987. Ophir was a theatrical director for HaGashash HaHiver. He also directed the Israeli movie Hamesh Ma'ot Elef Shahor, and wrote the screenplay for 4 Israeli movies. He wrote and performed many sketches and comedy routines, many of which are still popular in Israel today. He also did a series of Arabic-instruction TV programs that ran through the 1980s.He also appeared in the Chuck Norris film, The Delta Force.Awards and commemorationThe Israeli Film Academy award is named the "Ophir Award" in his honor. In 2005, he was voted the 33rd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Yne to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. Born In Jerusalem Novenber 4th, 1926. Fourth generation Israeli. Educated at "Alliance" school of Jerusalem. In his teens studied at "Ha'ohel" Theatre Studio. at the age of 15 joined the Palmach forces and participated in safeguarding the convoys to Jerusalem. Also fought at the Palyam Naval forces, where he met Dan Ben Amotz, who was very impressed with his comic talents, and appointed him to his friend Haim Heffer, founder of the "The Cheezbatron", the Palmach's entertainment troupe. Offir was the first person asked to contribute his multi-talents to the band and became its undisputed star. Besides his many comic pieces, he became a musical performer, singing the band's first songs: "Dahilak Motke" with Naomi Polani, "Inyan Shel Offi" (A matter of character) with Rivka Kramer and "Ani Akiva". He met his first spouse, singer Ohala Ha'Levi at The Cheezbatron. Was invited by Marlene Dietrich to join her in creating a show. The great actress also designated him words of admiration in a book written by her. Life magazine defined him as standing in line with Marcel Marceau as one of the world's best mime artists. Ephraim Kishon (Hebrew: אפרים קישון‎, August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005) was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director. He was one of the most widely-read contemporary satirists in the world. Menahem Golan (Hebrew: מנחם גולן‎; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014) was an Israeli director and producer. He produced movies for such stars as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and was known for a period as a producer of comic book-style movies like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Captain America, and his aborted attempt to bring Spider-Man to the silver screen. Using the pen name of Joseph Goldman, Golan also wrote and "polished" film scripts.[1] He was co-owner of Golan-Globus with his cousin Yoram Globus.[2] Golan produced about 200 films, directed 44, won 8 times the Violin David Awards and The Israel Prize in Cinema. Menahem Golan was born on May 31, 1929, in Tiberias, then Mandate Palestine. He studied directing at the Old Vic School and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and filmmaking at New York University. During the Israeli War of Independence he served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force. Directing and film career Golan started out as an apprentice at Habima Theater in Tel Aviv. After completing his studies in theater direction, he staged plays in Israel. He gained experience as a filmmaker by working as an assistant to Roger Corman.[3] As a director, Golan is probably most known for his film Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan, 1977), about the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. He also produced the film Eskimo Limon (Lemon Popsicle, 1978), spawning many sequels and an American remake named The Last American Virgin. In 1979, he did an adaptation of an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel entitled The Magician of Lublin. Golan was responsible for the musical The Apple (1980), an unusual moral fable with a rock-disco soundtrack which appears on a number of lists of all-time-worst movies, but has developed a following as a cult film.[4] Golan's production company, The Cannon Group, produced a long line of films during the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Delta Force, Runaway Train, and some of the Death Wish sequels. In 1986, Cannon was taken over by Pathe Communications. Golan produced several comic book-style movies in the latter half of the 1980s, perhaps most notably Masters of the Universe, based on the toys of the same name and inspired by the comics work of Jack Kirby.[5] In 1987, Cannon gained infamy after their U.K.-based production of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace failed in theaters and provoked a negative backlash from fans. In 1989 Golan resigned from Cannon, and by 1993 it had folded. Immediately following Cannon's collapse, Golan became head of 21st Century Film Corporation and produced several medium-budget films. Golan was hoping to film Spider-Man in 1986 at Cannon studios in United Kingdom, and shoot the exteriors in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Dolph Lundgren was envisioned as the Green Goblin and Spider-Man creator Stan Lee was approached to cameo as J. Jonah Jameson.[6] Golan struggled for years to produce the Marvel Comics character, but failed after 21st Century Film Corporation went bankrupt and folded in 1996 (along with Carolco Pictures, another production company that had agreed to help Golan finance the film). Sony Pictures eventually got the Spider-Man rights and produced the first film in 2002. In 2002 he released his adaptation of Crime and Punishment. Personal life Golan was married and had three children.[3] Golan died while visiting Jaffa, Tel Aviv with family members in the early hours of August 8, 2014.[7] Ambulances immediately rushed to the scene, and following attempts to resuscitate him, paramedics pronounced him dead.[7] He was 85 years old.[8] Filmography as director 1960s El Dorado (1963) Shemona B'Ekevot Ahat (1964) Dalia Vehamalahim (1964) Fortuna (1966) Einer spielt falsch (1966) 999 Aliza: The Policeman (1967) Tevye and His Seven Daughters (1968) What's Good for the Goose (1969) Margo Sheli (1969) 1970s Lupo! (1970) Attack at Dawn (1970) Malkat Hakvish (1971) Katz V'Carasso (1971) Shod Hatelephonim Hagadol (1972) Escape to the Sun (1972) Kazablan (1974) Lepke (1975) Diamonds (1975) Operation Thunderbolt (1977) The Uranium Conspiracy (1978) The Magician of Lublin (1979) 1980s The Apple (1980) Enter the Ninja (1981) Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984) The Delta Force (1986) Over the Top (1987) Hanna's War (1988) Mack the Knife (1989) 1990s Zebrácká opera (1991) Hit the Dutchman (1992) Silent Victim (1993) Deadly Heroes (1993) Superbrain (1995) Russian Roulette - Moscow 95 (1995) Die Tunnelgangster von Berlin (1996) 1998 Lima: Breaking the Silence (1998) Armstrong (1998) The Versace Murder (1998) Legendary Israeli director and film producer Menahem Golan died on Friday. He was 85. Golan produced some of Israel's most memorable movies. In the 1970s he moved to Hollywood and directed many action films including those staring Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Sylvester Stallone. Golan is best known in Israel for directing the movie Eskimo Limon (Lemon Popsicle) and its sequels. Internationally, his production company as responsible for such block-busters as Delta Force, Death Wish and Masters of the Universe. Golan was born as Menahem Globus in 1929. After the Israeli War of Independence in 1948 he went to study theater in London. Upon his return he directed plays at the HaMatate Theater. In 1960 he went to study film at New York University. When he returned to Israel in 1963, he directed his first feature film "El Dorado," starring Chaim Topol and Gila Almagor. A year later, in 1964 he directed the comedy "Dalia And The Sailors." That same year he founded with his cousin Yoram Globus the production company Noah Films. One of the first films the company produced was Ephraim Kishon's "Sallah Shabati," a comedy about Immigration to Israel, starring Chaim Topol. Other notable Israeli films the two cousins produced during the 1960s and 70s were Moshe Mizrahi's "I Love You Rosa" and "The House on Schlouch Street" and Boaz Davidson's "Lemon Popsicle" series. While producing, Golan continued to direct his own films, these included "Fortuna," "999 Aliza Mizrahi," "Queen of the Highway," "Kazablan," and "Operation Thunderbolt," which was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. In 1978, the two cousins moved to Hollywood and purchased Cannon Group a small American production company. After a number of flops, the two began to produce a number of successful films and over the years gained a reputation of super-producers, after developing a new model to fund and distribute independent films. In 1986, Golan directed in Israel the Hollywood film "Delta Force." The company reached its apex in 1987, in which it produced dozens of films including "Over the Top," starring Sylvester Stallone. A year later in 1986 the company faced bankruptcy and Golan and Globus were forced to sell it. After this he founded the production company "21st Century Film Corporation," which among other films produced "Captain America" in 1990. This company closed down too. In the mid-90s, Golan returned to Israel and began directing musicals on the Israeli stage. In 1999, Golan received the Israel Prize for cinema together with Israeli filmmaker David Perlov. The last Cannes Festival featured a screening of a documentary about Golan and his cousin Globus directed by Hilla Medalia called "The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films." The film charted the two cousins career and complicated relationship. roducer/director Menahem Golan, whose prolific output of schlock action movies and occasional prestige projects made him a force to be dealt with in 1980s Hollywood, died Friday in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli and other news sources.He was 85. Details concerning his death were not available.Menahem's faith in me as an actor was the real reason for the breakthrough of my movie career. - Chuck NorrisHe built a short-lived U.S. film empire with his cousin Yoram Globus, with whom he had a relationship that varied from close-knit to non-speaking. In Hollywood, before their film production company imploded in the late 1980s, the enterprising pair was known as "the Go-Go Boys."In their heyday, they turned out more than 30 films a year, including action flicks such as "Bloodsport," "The Delta Force," "Missing in Action" and sequels to "Death Wish."Although Golan referred to his low-budget fare as his "action boutique" movies, he didn't shy away from the term "schlock." "Schlock is entertainment for the masses," he told the Associated Press in 1985. "It's fantasy. Storytelling without challenging the mind too much."lRelated Obituaries Marilyn Burns dies at 65; starred in 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' See all related 8 He cast action stars — such as Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson and Jean-Claude Van Damme — who helped pre-sell films to foreign distributors. "Menahem's faith in me as an actor was the real reason for the breakthrough of my movie career," Norris told the Israeli Ynet news site. Golan also leaped on 1980s trends such as breakdancing, the centerpiece of his films "Breakin' " and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo," both released in 1984. Critics often despaired at the films, but many found favor with audiences. Notable Deaths Photos of leaders, stars and other notable figures who have died in 2014. Golan was born in 1929 in Tiberias as Menachem Globus, according to the Jerusalem Post. He changed his name during his time in the Army, which included service during Israel's 1948 War of Independence. He studied theater in London and returned to Israel, where he directed his first film, "El Dorado" (1963), starring Topol, who went on to appear in several films in the U.S., including "Fiddler on the Roof" in 1974. In 1964, Golan and Yoram Globus founded a film production company and made several movies that were hits in Israel. They moved to Hollywood in the late 1970s and bought the fledgling Cannon Films. In addition to their action flicks, they backed prestige projects such as "That Championship Season" (1982), based on a play by Jason Miller; an adaptation of "King Lear" (1987) directed by Jean-Luc Godard; and "Barfly" (1987), based on the life of poet Charles Bukowski. But in the late 1980s, financial troubles mounted as they suffered some commercial flops on films that were relatively high budget, including "Superman IV" (1987) and "Over the Top" (1987), starring Sylvester Stallone as a competitive arm wrestler Menahem Golan arrives for a screening of "How to Train Your Dragon 2" at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2014. (Alberto Pizzoli, AFP/Getty Images) Golan left a severely cut-back Cannon in 1989, according to Variety. He continued to make movies and produced a live staging of "The Sound of Music" in Israel, but legal challenges dogged him, and many of his biggest announced films never came to be. Still, he accumulated a bountiful number of credits. According to the Internet Movie Database, Golan was listed as a producer on 209 films. Survivor information was not available. UPDATED: As the head of Cannon Films with cousin Yorum Globus, he was behind such films as "The Delta Force," the "Death Wish" sequels, "Masters of the Universe" and "Bloodsport." Legendary filmmaker Menahem Golan, co-founder of The Cannon Group production company and Israeli cinema pioneer, has died. He was 85. According to multiple Israeli news outlets, Golan lost consciousness while strolling outside his house in the city of Jaffa with family members in the early hours of Friday evening. Ambulances rushed to the scene, and following attempts of more than an hour to resuscitate him, paramedics pronounced him dead.With cousin and partner Yoram Globus, Golan ran Cannon Films for a decade, releasing more than a dozen films a year in its prime. They bought the ailing company, which was launched in 1967, for $500,000 in 1979 and fueled an appetite for B-films that was created by the invention of the VCR. For a time, Cannon was on the brink of becoming the seventh Hollywood “major” studio."I'm in complete and utter shock; I cannot come to grips with the news", Globus told THR from his home in Tel Aviv.“Menahem lived, breathed and ate cinema, and he is undoubtedly a founding member of the Israeli cinematic landscape, locally and all of its appeal internationally,” he added. “We both managed to make our mark in Hollywood in our years working there and had the great fortune in life to make a living from our one and only hobby — not something that a lot of people get to do.”Golan produced more than 200 films including the action hits The Delta Force (1986) starring Chuck Norris and the Death Wish sequels toplined by Charles Bronson.He also produced such high-octane fare as Missing in Action (1984), also starring Norris, and its sequels; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986); the lightly regarded Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), which effectively disabled the franchise for years; Masters of The Universe (1987), starring Dolph Lundgren; and Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Bloodsport (1988).In the documentary Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, which played this month at the Melbourne International Film Festival, THR critic David Rooney noted that music supervisor Richard Kraft likened the Cannon product pipeline to bowel movements dumped onto the international market with scant concern for quality or plot coherence: “You flush it. You make another one.”Cannon, though, also was behind much loftier fare, like John Cassavetes’ Love Streams (1984), which won Berlin’s Golden Bear, Robert Altman’s Fool for Love (1985), Franco Zefferelli's Otello (1986), Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear (1987) and Barbet Schroeder’s Barfly (1987).Born Menahem Globus to Polish immigrants on May 31, 1929, in the Northern Israeli city of Tiberias, he changed his surname for patriotic reasons to the Hebrew name of Golan upon serving in the Israeli Air Force during the country’s 1948 War of Independence. After finishing years of filmmaking studies at the Old Vic School, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and New York University, he returned to Israeli and directed for the stage.Dorado. A year later, he served as producer of Sallah Shabati starring noted Israeli actor Chaim Topol, which went on to win the Golden Globe for best foreign film and became the first Israeli feature to be nominated at the Academy Awards in the category.Golan co-founded local production company Noah Films; named after his father, it was his first business endeavor with his cousin Yoram. Noah Films was behind Academy Award nominated films 1972’s I Love You Rosa and 1973’s The House on Chelouche Street. In 1977, Golan directed Operation Thunderbolt, based on the previous year’s real event of the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda, a movie that was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language Film and led the way for the cousins to try and conquer Hollywood.By 1989, Golan had resigned from Canon, which folded altogether four years later, while still courting Stan Lee's Marvel Comics and managing to produce a 1990 version of Captain America under the 21st Century Film Corp. His longtime efforts to produce a Spider-Man film fell short. Golan soon returned to Israel and to theater in the early 1990s and directed local adaptations of such musicals as Annie and The Sound of Music.21st Century Film Corp. went bankrupt in 1996.The trials and tribulations of the cousins also were the recent focus of the Israeli documentary The Go Go Boys by director Hila Medalia, which premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where Golan was in attendance for the last of many, many times."He made it to Cannes relying on a wheelchair and a walker [after injuring himself in a fall] but still went out every single night, just to talk about cinema," Globus said.He noted that Golan also attended a recent screening of Go Go Boys at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was pleased with the reception the film had received there.During the past two decades, Golan focused on local productions and was the recipient of Israeli Film Academy’s Ophir Award for Lifetime Achievement and The Israel Prize, given annually by the government for excellence and contribution to cinema.   ebay2587

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