Moshé Mizrahi
Moshé Mizrahi | |
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| Born | 5 September 1931 |
| Died | 3 August 2018 (aged 86) |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1969–2016 |
Moshé Mizrahi (Hebrew: משה מזרחי; 5 September 1931 – 3 August 2018) was an Israeli film director.
Biography[]
He was born in Egypt, migrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1946, and studied filmmaking in France in 1950. He directed the Oscar-winning 1977 film Madame Rosa starring Simone Signoret. The film, which was about a former prostitute in Paris who survived Auschwitz, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on behalf of France.[1]
He directed 14 films in both Israel and France, three of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; I Love You Rosa,[2] The House on Chelouche Street[3] and Madame Rosa, with the last of these winning the award.[4]
In September 1994, he was honored by the Haifa Film Festival for his lifetime contribution to Israeli cinema.
His landmark film went practically unseen until it was re-released in 2008 and its jazz soundtrack album of the same name (but lacking the accent) was profiled in The FADER by .
As of March 2009, Mizrahi was living in Tel Aviv, leading film-making workshop in Tel Aviv University's film school. His wife, Michal Bat-Adam, is a film director as well as an actress and played lead roles in several of Mizrahi's films. Today, she teaches acting classes at Tel Aviv University.
He died of pneumonia on 3 August 2018, at the age of 86.[5]
Partial filmography[]
- (Sophie's Ways, 1970)
- The Customer of the Off Season (1970)
- I Love You Rosa (Ani Ohev Otach Rosa, 1972)
- Daughters, Daughters (1973)
- The House on Chelouche Street (1973)
- (1975)
- Madame Rosa (La Vie devant soi, 1977)
- , based upon the novel of the same title by Patrick Modiano
- (I Sent a Letter to my Love) (1980)
- Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
References[]
- ^ "Moshe Mizrahi, only Israeli director of Oscar-winning film, dies at 86 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency". www.jta.org.
- ^ "The 45th Academy Awards (1973) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ "The 46th Academy Awards (1974) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
- ^ "The 50th Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
- ^ "Died Oscar-winning Israeli film Director Moshe Mizrahi". The Siver Telegram. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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