Avi Kushnir
Birthday: Born in 1960-08-26 in
Deathday: Alive
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משיח
Character: ארמונד
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מותק בול באמצע
Character: Alex Torchin
A satirical comedy about the Knesset....
רוקדים עם כוכבים
Character: Self - Host
The Israeli version of the popular British TV show Strictly Come Dancing. The show features local celebrities partnered with professional ballroom dancers, competing to be the most successful dancers in the contest. Each week the couple that gains the least votes from the show's judges and spectators is eliminated. Viewers vote for their favorites, in order to save them from elimination, via phone, SMS and online. Over 350,000 votes were cast on the show's 3rd season finale....
הישראלים
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החיים זה לא הכל
Character: Gadi Neumann
Israeli TV sitcom about a divorced couple trying to live their lives together....
Hit & Run
Character: Investigator at Hospital
A happily married man's life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident in Tel Aviv. Grief-stricken and confused, he searches for his wife's killers, who have fled to the U.S. With the help of an ex-lover, he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him....
זהו זה!
Character: Host
Plots of the episodes revolved around different subjects related to life in Israel, fashions like Folk dancing, tributes to classics like Charlie Chaplin movies, or contemporary series like The Simpsons and Dallas....
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Metallic Blues
Character: Shmuel
A man enters the car and drives it to a local car dealer where he hopes to sell it. It seems that he has moved back from Canada and cannot afford the tax on the car. The dealership is manned by two. One appears to be the worker of the pair - keeping the cars clean and running. The other is a cookie cutter version of many auto salesmen to be found everywhere in the world. He is Shmuel, the apparent owner of the lot and has seen the same car in a German dealer's catalog priced at €50,000. He confe...
Love & Dance
Character: Rami
Chen, a young kid, is battling a cultural conflict between his Russian born mother and Israeli father. She is cultured and used to the finer things in life, including theater and fine dining. He is gruff on the outside but sweet on the inside - a Sabra; and looking to make his young son a man rather than the wimp his mother is raising. One day, Chen stumbles upon a ballroom dance class for young people and sees Natalie, a stunning Russian young girl he falls in love with immediately. His interes...
Alex Is Lovesick
Character: Motke
This feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young hustlers dreaming of nude girls, his schoolmaster is a nervous Russian immigrant. The street speech is full of Polish, Russian, and Farsi slang, full of the small talk that had later entered the everyday speech. The soundtrack, which is quite remarkable, is built sol...
Million Dollar Madness
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This comedy about the "sanity" of those in an asylum focuses on popular Israeli comic Seffi Rivlin, who plays a bank manager who discovers that the inmates of a mental institution are running a counterfeiting operation from the basement of their hospital. Actors exaggerate their portrayals of the patients, and the plot zooms off in several directions at once...
Type B
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Jonathan (17) is a closeted bisexual, who reveals his sexual identity for the first time in a meeting with his good friend, Adam (17). Jonathan's father enters the room unexpectedly. Jonathan has to choose between his Dad and Adam....
The Plumber
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The story of a simple plumber whose attraction to a nightclub singer got him to become the finance minister of Israel. He uncovers corruption in the government and presents his logical plan for developing the country....
Ibiza
Character:
Yam broke his brother hand and now he needs to fly to Ibiza to win surf tournament in order to get money for surgery....
Eva
Character: Yoel
Yoel and Ewa have been married for a long time. While putting order in their papers, he finds a bank note informing him of a loan on an apartment he owns, which he never knew about. Yoel discovers that in that apartment, in the poor side of town, lives a strange man, who knows his wife intimately. Yoel investigation of the matter will change his life forever....