Clara, a Polish born Jew, living in Tel Aviv of the 1970’s, has her ideas about how people should behave, and runs everybody’s life accordingly: her husband, her sisters, their husbands, their children, her brother who lives in London (probably because it was the only way to get away from her…). Whenever something “improper” does happen, Clara’s way of handling it is simply to shove it under the carpet and ignore it completely, as if it never happened. 3 basic rules, are, of course: 1. Never marry some one “under” your class (Or the class you think you are). 2. Never become pregnant out of wedlock and 3. No Abortions. As one may expect, everything crumbles when her niece gives her no option, but to break at least one of those rules.

Doda.Clara.1977.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 32 min
Size: 	1.67 GiB
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Resolution: 	718x570 ~> 760x570
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Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
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#1:  	Multiple languages 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/DD6C0561544BF12/Doda.Clara.1977.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish
Subtitles:English, Hebrew

The post Avraham Heffner – Doda Clara AKA Aunt Clara (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

10 years after he left Israel and “played it big-time in America”, Benny Shpitz returns for a visit, self-exploring his youth, friends, dreams, beliefs and idol, Daniel Wax, who symbolized the “beautiful Israeli”. Shpitz finds out his friends are melancholic, unsatisfied with marriage life, hiding a vast hole in their sole. In a wider context, Israel post 67′ will no longer be the society that it was meant to be.

but where is Daniel Wax.avi

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Container:	AVI
Runtime:	1h 34mn
Size:	900 MiB
Video
Codec:	XviD
Resolution:	576x432
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 210 kb/s
Audio
English 2.0ch MP3 @ 107 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/AB697E2F6CAF08A/but_where_is_Daniel_Wax.avi
https://nitro.download/view/24CE19D5B98B6C8/Wax-final.srt

Language(s):Hebrew
Subtitles:English

The post Avraham Heffner – Le’an Ne’elam Daniel Wax? AKA But Where Is Daniel Wax? (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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I can’t stress enough how wonderful, anarchic and unique is this early Israeli film. It blends lots of genres and pokes
fun at many sacred cows while dealing with connections between cinema, reality and its ideological representations.
There simply isn’t any other film like that, and it’s the first time it’s on the net, with subs.
Not much information in English, so I edited an article I’ve found, but it dosen’t do the movie justice:
A comic and episodic satire, the film uses improvization to ilustrate the clash between fantasy and reality in real life. Although conceived in the style of Mekas’ “Hallelujah the hills” (1962), it’s an authentically Israeli satire, an openly rebellious and individualistic expression that poked fun at the sacred myths of earlier zionist films. The technique of film within the film is used to portray film as reflection of the imagination, a miracle based on dreams and fantasies that take on concrete characteristics- parallel to the miracle of Israel, the dream that has become reality (?). Although not a commercial success, there’s no equal to it in all of the Israeli films made since then.
A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing business across the way. The two make a living by selling to each other. As there is nothing there, they decide to create a world out of their imagination. They build a cardboard film set, which slowly takes on real dimensions- the buildings turn to concrete, people come to ausition for parts in the “film” (cinema verite’ style, with Zohar mocking viciously the pretensions of the “actresses”) and builders come to viold appartment buildings (mocking the glorification of concrete and “heroic” settlement). In one sequence, Arab actors come and ask the filmmakers turn positive to negative, and they’re given the role of pioneers who plow the land and sing zionist songs. The imagined world of the filmmakers becomes so real eventually they lose sight of the thin line between fantasy and reality

https://nitro.download/view/1804BBA4AD86121/hole_in_the_moon.avi

Language:Hebrew
Subtitles:eng hardcoded

The post Uri Zohar – Hor B’Levana AKA Hole in the Moon (1964) first appeared on Cinema of the World.