Overview

Israeli cinema gained more popularity with the decision to grant tax refunds on the purchase of theater tickets, which initiated the production of Israeli films by commercial companies, expecting a reasonable return on their investment and gain in profits. Menahem Golan

Menahem Golan

Menahem Golan is an Israeli director and producer. He has produced movies for such stars as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and was known for a period as a producer of comic book-style movies like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV:...

, Ephraim Kishon

Ephraim Kishon

' was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He is one of the most widely-read contemporary satirists in the world.- Early life and World War II :...

, and Uri Zohar

Uri Zohar

Uri Zohar is a former Israeli film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi.-Biography:Zohar was born in Tel Aviv in 1934. In 1952, he graduated high school and did his military service in an army entertainment troupe. His first marriage ended in divorce.By...

 were the most prominent and active Israeli movie makers during the 1960s.

The Israeli films during the 1960s dealt with the misunderstanding between the Jews that came from the Middle East, and the Jews that came from Europe. One of these films was Fortuna (פורטונה) which was directed by Menahem Golan; however, it didn't fully utilize the conflict yet and still continued to have plot lines and characters which originated in the fifties. The films from the fifties evolved into the "main genre" films: popular and commercial films which were compatible with the ideological optimism and happiness to finally have a country that these times are mostly remembered for. At the same time, two different genres evolved, which had different artistic and ideological styles. The first Bourekas film was Sallah Shabati

Sallah Shabati

Sallah Shabati is a 1964 Israeli comedy film about the chaos of Israeli immigration and resettlement. This social satire placed the director Ephraim Kishon and producer Menahem Golan among the first Israeli filmmakers to achieve international success...

which was produced by Ephraim Kishon

Ephraim Kishon

' was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He is one of the most widely-read contemporary satirists in the world.- Early life and World War II :...

 in 1964. Correspondingly, in 1965 Uri Zohar produced the film Hole in the Moon

Hole in the Moon

Hole in the Moon is an Israeli avant-garde- satiric movie, published in 1964.Amos Kenan wrote its script and Uri Zohar directed it and was its star. The costar was Avraham Heffner. The guest actors were Dahn Ben-Amotz and Shaike Ophir. Many other actors performed in the film a few short roles each...

which was the first in the "New sensitivity" film movement which sought to bring the Israeli film features which were taken from the highest quality European cinema, particularly the French New Wave

French New Wave

The New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of...

 films. These two genres fully evolved during the seventies.

External links

• Israeli film at the Internet Movie Database
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