David Gurfinkel Movies

A collection of skits and songs from Israeli television shows from the 1970s.

Based on Gila Almagor’s autobiographical book, Under the Domim Tree follows a group of teenagers who survived the Holocaust in a boarding...

Story of a war-widow pressured by her friends to behave in the role of the heroic widow, and the journey she takes in a country of people under siege.

An agent with psychic powers comes to the rescue of the kidnapped daughter of the CIA director.

The story of a soccer team, respectable families, a corrupt night club owner, and a young lad to guide all to a happy ending.

Uri Zohar’s first film is a short experimental work based on an idea by Heinrich von Kleist. The film depicts the relationship between a...

An American reporter and his girl-friend are visiting Israel to get a "sense of the people", in the process he meets many Israelis and some Arabs as...

The Schwartz Dinasty belong to a long tradition of Jewish rabbis. The grandfathers took their faith and turned it into deeds coming to the Land of...

Clara, a polish born Jew, living in Tel Aviv of the 1970's, has her ideas about how people should behave, and runs everybody's life accordingly: her...

Leading up to the 1966 FIFA World Cup in London, Israeli teams practice and play every Saturday. Among the players and in the stands, tempers flare,...

"Kemo gedolim" is a collection of well known Israeli, children songs sang by Ariḳ Ainshṭain and others. In between the songs embedded...

On the day he is released from prison, Yisarael appears on the doorstep of the woman whose life he had changed. A weird relationship develops between...

A man pretends to be married to his ex-wife for the sake of his mother’s sanity. But when he finds love with his secretary, and later a...

Comedy about day to day life of a Gordon beach lifeguard and his friends.

Benny Furman is a basketball headcoach who can't decide what he really wants.

Against the backdrop of a land dispute between Jews and Arabs in the Galilee, an unusual and hopeless romance develops between Chava, the urban...

Yiddish live theater, a formerly lively theatrical form, is barely sustained by a few aging aficionados and its loyal but aged audience. Laura Adler...