Sallah
(1964)
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Sallah
(1964)
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Sallah Shabati
(as Haym Topol)
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Geula Nuni | ... |
Habbubah Shabati
(as Geula Noni)
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Gila Almagor | ... |
Bathsheva Sosialit
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Albert Cohen | ||
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Shraga Friedman | ... |
Neuman
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Zaharira Harifai | ... |
Frieda
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Shaike Levi | ... |
Shimon Shabati
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Nathan Meisler | ... |
Mr. Goldstein
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Esther Greenberg | ... |
Sallah's wife
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Mordecai Arnon | ... |
Mordecai
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Ya'ackov Banai | ||
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Ya'ackov Ben-Sira | ||
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Ya'ackov Bodo | ||
| Mike Burstyn | |||
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Arik Einstein | ... |
Ziggi
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The 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. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Written by Fiona Kelleghan
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