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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Ephraim Kishon
Writers:
Ephraim Kishon (screenplay)
Ephraim Kishon (story)
Contact:
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Release Date:
10 March 1965 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins more
User Comments:
Sallah is a heartwarming masterpiece of the 21st century.... more (6 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Topol ... Sallah Shabati (as Haym Topol)
Geula Nuni ... Habbubah Shabati (as Geula Noni)
Gila Almagor ... Bathsheva Sosialit
Albert Cohen
Shraga Friedman ... Neuman
Zaharira Harifai ... Frieda
Shaike Levi ... Shimon Shabati
Nathan Meisler ... Mr. Goldstein
Esther Greenberg ... Sallah's wife
Mordecai Arnon ... Mordecai
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ya'ackov Banai
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
Ya'ackov Bodo

Mike Burstyn
Arik Einstein ... Ziggi
Yehuda Fox
Joseph Levi
Haim Polani
Hanna Raviv
Shmuel Rodensky
Hinna Rozovska
Yehuda Rubenstein
Reuven Shefer
Gideon Singer
Nissan Yatir
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Sallah (USA)
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Runtime:
USA:110 min
Country:
Israel
Language:
Hebrew
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:G
Filming Locations:
Israel
Company:
Sallah Company more

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Referenced in Ervinka (1967) more
Soundtrack:
Li U'Lecha/Ve'Lach more

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3 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
Sallah is a heartwarming masterpiece of the 21st century...., 22 February 2006
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Author: Adam Kleinberg from United States

Hello and Baruch Hashem.

My name is Sam, but my friends call me Jeff, and I attend CHAT-RH in Canada. I am a Jewish day school student, and we just finished viewing Sallah in class. It is truly an amazing film that brings the love out of Jewish Jewry. As my late toda'ah teacher said: "Baruch Hashem, tov tov, Ha tarbut shelanu hu CHAI!" Throughout the documentary on Eastern-European Arabs that arrive in Israel, Sallah Shabati and his family depict the hardships and triumphant return to freedom. Under persecution by the kibutznikim, Sallah and his family members took on the outer secular world by enhancing their social lives in an extremely hard society. Jenny Segal once said "Winners don't quit, and Quitters don't win".

The musical soundtrack is truly phenomenal, and warms the heart even at the saddest of moments. Wow, the tune is an utter masterpiece infused with the characteristics of early Shakespearen heritage. The background portrays in immense form of emancipation of the Jewish culture.

Watch the movie, and you will understand what I am talking about

Singing out, Jeff Guche

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