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A slapstick comedy lampooning bureaucracy and the madness of everyday life in Israel centers on an escaped lunatic who digs up the streets of Tel-Aviv with a drill. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Bomba Tzur ... Blaumilch
Nissim Azikri ... Yehezkel Ziegler
Shraga Friedman ... Dr. Avigdor Kooiybishevsky
Avner Hizkiyahu ... Menahem Ze'ev Zuckerman
Oded Teomi ... Dentist
Rina Ganor ... Seine Frau
Zaharira Harifai ... Fürsorgerin
Miriam Gavrieli ... Deborah Zuckerman
Aviva Paz ... Secretary
Gideon Singer ... Police Chief Akiva Levkowicz
Mosko Alkalai ... Zelig Schultheiss
Albert Cohen ... Dr. Gilad
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gabi Amrani ... Police Officer
Yona Atlas
Reuven Bar-Yotam ... Foreman
Hanoch Chazon
Yehuda Efroni
Zisha Gold
Esther Greenberg ... Mrs. Kalaniot
Zalman Hirschfeld
Arieh Itzhak (as Arieh Itzhaki)
Ephraim Kishon ... Driver
Oshik Levi
Amnon Meskin
Elisheva Michaeli ... Dvora
Rivka Michaeli ... Cleaning woman
Shaike Ophir ... Police Officer
Abraham Ronai ... Mr. Kosla, Asst. to the mayor
Tsippi Shavit ... Operator in Tel-Aviv City hall (as Tzipi Shavit)
Reuven Shefer
Sami Shmueli (as Sami Shmuel)
Shlomo Vishinsky
Nathan Wolfovich ... Mayor
Aliza Yitzhaki
Uri Zohar ... Orchestra Conductor
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Blaumilch Canal (International: English title) (literal title)
Der Blaumilchkanal (West Germany) (TV title)
The Big Dig
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95 min | West Germany:87 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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The character of the incompetent police officer (played by Shaike Ophir) was expanded to the protagonist in another film of Ephraim Kishon - Ha-Shoter Azulai (1970) (its Hebrew title - "The Policeman Azoulay"). more
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Balada La-Ish Ha-Pashut more

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An absolutely amazing laugh riot ! ! ! !, 15 February 2008
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Author: Lalit Rao (cpowerccc@yahoo.com) from Paris, France

Apart from "Lemon Popsicle" series of films from Israel,there are not so many directors in the history of Israelian cinema who have made successful comedy films.If there is a man who has made enjoyable comedy films it is Iprahim Kishon.As he was primarily a great writer,he was able to infuse his writing talents in his films.It can be said about Iprahim Kishon's film "Te'alat Blaumilch" that its visual as well aesthetic style was completely different from the films made by other comic geniuses like Max Linder,Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Apart from its highly original idea of a lunatic digging a canal in the middle of a street,this film was famous for its set design which consisted of a replica of a fictitious canal right in the middle of Tel Aviv city.A thing which might irk some feminist viewers is that this is a bit sexist in nature as there are numerous ribald jokes consisting of futile attempts made by office boss to seduce his beautiful secretary. Iprahim Kishon made three great comic films and this film is one of those laugh riots which is surely going to drive you crazy with endless bouts of laughter.

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