Best movies of Amos Gitai

Actors : Yoram Hattab, Uri Klauzner, Tomer Russo, Liron Levo,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. ...

Actors : Yoram Hattab, Meital Berdah, Uri Klauzner, Yaël Abecassis,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

Two sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society.

Actors : Einat Weitzman, Yitzhak Hizkiya, Michael Warshaviak, Pini Mittelman,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

Itzhak Rabin's murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as prime minister, and what led to his murder.

Actors : Uri Klauzner, Yaël Abecassis, Liron Levo, Hana Laslo,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

Slice-of-life look at the lives of twelve people who live or work in the same apartment complex in Tel Aviv.

Actors : Carmen Maura, Hiam Abbass, Natalie Portman, Hana Laslo,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

Two women embark on a road trip after they are brought together by circumstance. Rebecca (Portman) flees her hotel after a fight with her mother-in-law (Maura) and hails a taxi driven by Hanna (Lazlo).

Actors : Dalit Kahan, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Hanna Maron, Moshe Ivgy,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

A slice of life - day after day - in Haifa, where Moshe and Didi's marriage is on the rocks, affairs are casual, and Moshe's angst about health, his parents, sex, communication, and ...

Actors : Moni Moshonov, Andrei Kashkar, Helena Yaralova, Yussuf Abu-Warda,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.

Actors : Emmanuelle Devos, Jeanne Moreau, Dominique Blanc, Hippolyte Girardot,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Actors : Maria Zreik, Naama Preis, Bahira Ablassi, Khawla Ibraheem,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

Laila In Haifa is set over one fateful night in a club in the port town of Haifa and explores the interweaving stories of five women. The film aims to present a snapshot of contemporary ...

Actors : Barbara Hendricks, Jeanne Moreau, Liron Levo, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.

Actors : Amitai Ashkenazi, Ben Eidel, Samuel Fuller, Efratia Gitai,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

From Israel's most important filmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's (KADOSH, KIPPUR) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary ...

Actors : Hanna Schygulla, Anne Parillaud, Diana Bespechni, Rosamund Pike,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of ...

Actors : Samantha Morton, Luke Holland, Daphna Kastner, Thomas Jane,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

Is the story of Samantha and Dov Ernst, American Zionists who emigrated to Palestine. Kalkofsky, a German Jew and bookseller, left behind his family in Europe. He accommodates Silvia, a young revolutionary against British rule.

Actors : Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Catherine Jacob, Léa Seydoux, Pierre Arditi,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself ...

Actors : Yaël Abecassis, Pippo Delbono, Mathieu Amalric, Lamis Ammar,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

On a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.

Actors : Simone Benyamini, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Zare Vartanian, Mohammad Bakri,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to Ethiopia. Esther, using information from ...

Actors : Lisa Kreuzer, Rivka Neuman, Benjamin Levi, Markus Stockhausen,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian Jew and revolutionary, goes from Minsk to...

Actors : Elinor Jagodnik, Raphael Hatishbi, Sapho, Dominique Sanda,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

With the feel of experimental film, Gitai mixes storytelling, readers' theater, cityscapes (usually seen from moving trains), and desolate landscapes to mediate on the act of creation. What...

Actors : Hanna Schygulla, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Ophrah Shemesh, Samuel Fuller,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced...

Actors : Hanna Schygulla, Samuel Fuller, Jerome Koenig, Masha Itkina,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in ...