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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.
Sallah Shabati: Directed by Ephraim Kishon. With Topol, Geula Nuni, Gila Almagor, Albert Cohen. 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.
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.
Watch trailer. 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.
The character of Sallah Shabati was born in a skit Kishon originally wrote for the IDF’s Nachal Troupe (‘lehakat hanachal’), inspired by his experiences as a new immigrant in a temporary migrant camp in Haifa.
Dec 6, 2022 · Sallah Shabati, the character that launched Chaim Topol's acting career, also threatened to typecast him as a mere impressionist. But thanks to Topol’s great talent and determination, what could have been an obstacle to a rich and varied career became the role of a lifetime.
Sallah Shabati, an Oriental Jew, arrives with his family in the young nation of Israel in 1949 and finds housing in a ramshackle transit camp until he can afford a modern flat. Sallah, habitually lazy, devises various schemes to get money, such as selling his vote to each of the several political parties.
A lazy Asian Jew (Topol) schemes for better living conditions for himself and his family in 1949 Israel.
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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, ...Read more where the entire family sleeps.
Summary. This sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history, is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who, like so many Jews in the state’s early years, lived in the ma’barot, ramshackle housing.
