Israeli films before 1948
Israeli films before 1948
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- DirectorChaim HalachmiStarsShimon PovsnerShimon FinkelShifra AshmanOded Hanoded, the first feature film made in Hebrew.
- DirectorChaim HalachmiStarsMoshe ChoorgelYehezkel FriedmanBaruch HadariA tailor and his wife, two tourists and two settlers get mixed up with costumes and confusion during the Purim celebration of the 'AdLoYada' in Tel Aviv.
- DirectorChaim Halachmi
- DirectorBaruch AgadatiStarsMoshe ChoorgelYitzhak KatzRaphael KlatchkinA chronicle of fifty years of trying to make a desert bloom and create a new state, Israel, in the land of British Palestine.
- DirectorAleksander FordStarsAharon MeskinM. ForfeldRaphael KlatchkinDescribe the harsh reality attempts of establishing a Jewish settlement in Israel and the efforts of the Arab to prevent it. The film is considered as the first talking film in Palestine Israel.
- DirectorHerbert KlineJoseph LejtesBen OysermanStarsY. AdakiIrene BrozaMichael CohenA boy who survived the Holocaust hopes to be reunited with his parents in the Holy Land.
- DirectorNathan AxelrodAlfred WolfStarsYoma Ben-ArtziYosef CohenYehuda GabaiA big screen adaptation of author Zvi Lieberman's children's book of the same title. Young German Jewish teens arriving in the country at the Nahalat Achim youth village struggle to fit in amongst their native peers. When asked why they are being standoffish and will not join in on the singing and gameplaying, they reply that they can't very well be happy as long as their parents are detained in concentration camps back in Germany. The youth councillor who has overheard this exchange and wants to help bring the kids together and to support the new immigrants, then tells them the historic tale of Galil El's heroic youths who had stood up to the Roman occupier 2,000 years earlier. The majority of the film is comprised of the councillor's story in which the youths rebuild their village after the Romans had destroyed it, just as the young German youths will now rebuild their lives in the (future) land of Israel.
- DirectorJuda LemanStarsDavid RossPortraying Zionist settlers' accomplishments, this part-documentary, part-travelogue shows 1930s Palestine as opportunity for fulfilling a dream. Through evocative visuals, it encourages settlement and investment in the "Jewish homeland."
- DirectorYa'ackov Ben-DovJoseph Gal-Ezer
- DirectorYa'ackov Ben-Dov
- DirectorBaruch Agadati
- DirectorMurray Rosenberg
- DirectorYa'ackov Ben-Dov
- StarsAlexander Penn
- DirectorJoseph Gal-Ezer
- DirectorA.J. BloomeStarsZvee ScoolerYossele RosenblattEarly documentary on Palestine, featuring the last appearance of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt.
- DirectorYa'ackov Ben-Dov
- DirectorYa'ackov Ben-Dov
- DirectorYa'ackov Ben-Dov
- DirectorYa'ackov Ben-Dov
- DirectorYa'ackov Ben-Dov
- DirectorHelmar LerskiThis documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine, recording the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and the idea of a socialist Jewish state.
- DirectorNoah SokolovskyThe Life of the Jews in Palestine: 1913 is an extraordinary look at the pioneers of the First and Second Aliyah in Palestine.
- DirectorYa'akov GrossThis historic document of Palestine during the tumultuous 1920s includes footage from three rare films by Ya'akov Ben Dov, the father of Hebrew cinema. Preserved in a joint project by the National Center for Jewish Film and the Israel Film Archive, these works include Return to Zion (1920-21), The Rebirth of a Nation (1923), and Romance of Palestine (1926). Considered lost for more than 70 years, the films depict the early builders of the Zionist vision who pioneered the Third Aliyah and the Fourth Aliyah and contain images of settlements and activities in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Rishon le Zion and Old Jaffa. From this rare archival footage, director and scholar Ya'akov Gross has created a vital and accessible look at a formative period in Israeli history whose legacy continues to influence Israeli politics today.
- DirectorYa'akov Gross