Director: George Ovadiah
With: Sassi Keshet, Yona Elian, Jacques Cohen, Arieh Elias, Ezra Dagan, Ya’acov Ben-Sira
Language: Hebrew, Hebrew subtitles
A Tribute to George Ovadiah in collaboration with the podcast “Once Upon a Time in Israel” Nurith
The film on whose set Shassi Keshet and Yona Elian – the eternal power couple of Israeli cinema – met and fell in love. The plot tells the hopeless love story of Shoshana (Yona Elian), daughter of a wealthy slaughterhouse owner from Tiberias (Jacques Cohen), and Moshe (Shassi Keshet), a poor truck driver from Tel Aviv.
This musical melodrama was a huge box office hit in Israel at the time, while critics brutally panned it. George Ovadiah directed, produced and wrote the screenplay, while the songs were written by Dudu Barak and composed by Boaz Sharabi and Shaike Paikov with arrangements by Albert Piamenta. Singer Nira Gal performed Yona Elian's singing parts.
A panel discussion with Sassi Keshet, Yona Elian and Nissim Sarousy, will follow the screening. Moderated by Gilad Levi Kopelman, creator, and presenter of the podcast "Once Upon a Time in Israel".
Total duration approx. 120 minutes