Alex Is Lovesick (1986)
Alex Holeh Ahavah (original title)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Eitan Anshel	...	Alexander 'Alex' Kuprovski
	Sharon Hacohen	...	Lola
	Uri Kabiri	...	Gadi Fishenzon
	Avi Kushnir	...	Motke Potash, Shuki's brother
	Jupiter Leonid	...	Leonid the teacher
	Avraham Mor	...	Kuba - Alex's Dad
	Alik Pelman	...	Shuki 'Jinji' Potash
	Shmuel Rodensky	...	Rabbi
	Hana Rot	...	Alex' Mom (as Hannah Roth)
	Hinna Rozovska	...	Alexander's Grandmother
	Joseph Shiloach	...	Faruk
	Yael Wasserman	...	Mimi

Storyline

The movie is a romantic comedy which takes place in Israel during the Austerity period of the 1950s. The movie's hero is Alex, a 13 year old boy who is about to attend his Bar Mitzvah. Alex has a typical Polish mother and father that suffers quietly. On account of the difficult economic situation they are compelled to share their apartment with a Persian tenant named Faruk that tries to fight his baldness by means of different creams. Alex falls in love with the new girl in his class, Mimi. Everything changes when his aunt Lola arrives in Israel from Poland to search for lost love. They were together when she lived in Poland but he vanished when Nazis conquered the country. Alex falls for his aunt and she on her part gives him more than just maternal love. The film describes in the exact form the ambiance that dominated the country in the 1950s, the Austerity in Israel in these days... Written by Khaliwali  

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