Alex Holeh Ahavah
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Alex Holeh Ahavah is an Israel
i cult film
directed by Boaz Davidson
which was released in 1986.
period of the 1950s. The main character is Alex, a 13-year-old boy who is about to attend his Bar Mitzvah.
Alex comes from a poor, dysfunctional family
who shares their apartment with a Persian tenant named Faruk who 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 a 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 atmosphere that dominated the country in the 1950s, known as the Austerity in Israel
including, the black market, the radio broadcasts concentrating on the search for lost relatives, music of the 1950s, the clothes and dresses and pastimes.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i cult film
Cult film
A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame among mainstream audiences...
directed by Boaz Davidson
Boaz Davidson
Boaz Davidson is an Israeli film director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine and studied film in London....
which was released in 1986.
Plot
The film is a romantic comedy which takes place in Israel during the AusterityAusterity in Israel
From 1949 to 1959, the state of Israel was, to a varying extent, under a regime of austerity , during which rationing and similar measures were enforced.-Rationale:...
period of the 1950s. The main character is Alex, a 13-year-old boy who is about to attend his Bar Mitzvah.
Alex comes from a poor, dysfunctional family
Dysfunctional family
A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often abuse on the part of individual members occur continually and regularly, leading other members to accommodate such actions. Children sometimes grow up in such families with the understanding that such an arrangement is...
who shares their apartment with a Persian tenant named Faruk who 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 a 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 atmosphere that dominated the country in the 1950s, known as the Austerity in Israel
Austerity in Israel
From 1949 to 1959, the state of Israel was, to a varying extent, under a regime of austerity , during which rationing and similar measures were enforced.-Rationale:...
including, the black market, the radio broadcasts concentrating on the search for lost relatives, music of the 1950s, the clothes and dresses and pastimes.
Cast
- Eitan Anshel - Alexander Koprobski
- Sharon Hacohen - Lola
- Uri KabiriUri KabiriUri Kabiri is an Israeli songwriter, actor and musical producer.-Biography:Uri Kabiri was born in Jerusalem, Israel. After his parents divorce, he moved with his mother to Rechovot. He learned to play several musical instruments at an early age, but focused mainly on keyboard. In 1979, when...
- Fishenzon - Avi Kushnir - Motke, Shuki's brother
- Jupiter Leonid - Leonid the teacher
- Avraham Mor - Alex' Dad
- Alik Pelman - Shuki
- Shmuel Rodensky - Alex' Rabbi
- Hana Rot - Alex' Mom (as Hannah Roth)
- Hinna Rozovska - Alexander's Grandmother
- Yosef ShiloachYosef ShiloachYosef Shiloach was a Kurdish Jews film actor. Shiloach was considered by many in Israel one of the nation's most beloved actors, mostly thanks to his parts in many Bourekas Films, a series of films made primarily in the 1970s, portraying the life of Sepharadim in an exaggerated comic manner,...
- Faruk - Yael Wasserman - Mimi