Overview

During the eighties the amount of audience going to see Israeli films significantly decreased. In addition to that, the government budget which was given to the film industry was very small - which made it very difficult to produce new quality films.

Among the most prominent films of this period: Beyond the Walls

Beyond the Walls

Beyond the Walls is a 1984 Israeli film directed by Uri Barbash co-wrote with Eran Preis. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Plot:...

(Uri Barbash

Uri Barbash

Uri Barbash is an Israeli film director. His film co-wrote with Eran Preis, Beyond the Walls was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...

), Summer of Aviya

Summer of Aviya

Summer of Aviya is a Hebrew language book that became a bestseller. The 1985 autobiographical novel by theater actress Gila Almagor was made into a film released in 1989. The 96-minute film acts as a memoir of Almagor's childhood and provides insights into Israeli society in the early post-state...

(Gila Almagor

Gila Almagor

Gila Almagor is an Israeli actress, film star, and author.-Biography:Gila Almagor was born four months after the death of her father, Max Alexandrowitz, a Jewish immigrant from Germany who was killed by an Arab sniper while working as a policeman in Haifa...

), Avanti Popolo (Rafi Bukai), Late Summer Blues

Late Summer Blues

Late Summer Blues is a 1987 Israeli film directed by Renen Schorr. It is a story about a group of Israeli teens in their last summer before army service. They all experience different conflicts about joining the army. One of them cannot join the army because he is diabetic. One of them does not...

(Renen Schorr

Renen Schorr

Renen Schorr is a film director, screenwriter, film producer. In 1989, he became head of Israel’s first independent, national school for film and television. He then founded the Sam Spiegel Film & TV School – Jerusalem, and has served as its director since that time.-Background:Son of a physician,...

), Noa Bat 17 (Yitzhak Yeshurun), Hamsin (Danny Waxman), Shtei Etzbaot Mi'Tzidon (Eli Cohen

Eli Cohen (actor)

Eli Cohen is an Israeli actor and film director. In 1989, his film Summer of Aviya won the Silver Bear Award from the 39th Berlin International Film Festival...

) and Burning Land (Serge Ankri

Serge Ankri

Serge Ankri was born in 1949 in Tunis, lived and studied in France, starts and received Bachelor of Arts degree in Nice. He immigrated to Israel in 1973. He is graduate of the Film & Televsision Department, Tel Aviv University...

).

External links

• Israeli film at the Internet Movie Database
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