Sallah Shabati
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The sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history (until that time) is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months.
- (1.2K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Ephraim Kishon
- 1965-03-10
A Jewish man from Asia immigrates to 1948 Israel with his family and struggles to provide for them.
- Ephraim Kishon, Joseph Gross
- Haym Topol
Genres: Comedy. Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes. Availability: Worldwide. This sharp, often hilarious, satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history, is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months.
- 3 min
- IsraeliFilms
Israel. 110 minutes. Released. Release Date: 10 March 1965 (US) (more) Genre: Comedy (more) Sallah Shabati, a Mizrahi Jewish immigrant, travels from Yemen to Israel with his family. Upon their arrival, they are taken to the camp and given a dreadful one-room tin house, where the entire ...Read more. Director: Ephraim Kishon (Director) Writer:
His film, which he based on the skit, is a biting satire that takes no prisoners, including the smug Ashkenazi establishment and the new immigrants from Muslim countries. Sallah, the film’s main protagonist moves his large family to Israel and is sent to live in a temporary migrant camp.
Directed by Ephraim Kishon. Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of the big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
Sallah Shabati (Hebrew: סאלח שבתי) is a 1964 Israeli comedy film about the chaos of Israeli immigration and resettlement, as well as the issues Mizrahi Jews faced in the developing Israeli society.
