Shmulik Kraus

Shmulik Kraus

Movies for Shmulik Kraus...

Shmulik Kraus: Behind Blue Eyes
Title: Shmulik Kraus: Behind Blue Eyes
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Shmulik Kraus is considered the founding father of modern Israeli music, a controversial figure. Five decades of creative work intertwined with madness, jail time and violence, this film portrays a complex character. The manic depressive illness he suffered from trapped Kraus in a vicious cycle; each album recording ended in his hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital. Yet, his passion to create new music did not cease there. Kraus passed away unexpectedly in 2013 during the shooting of this film. He was 77. Combining archive footage with intimate interviews and scenes documented during a two year time span, the film unravels a different Kraus: human, tender, a weary warrior. We are offered a deeper look into a troubled, once-adored artist, from the perspective of his life's end.
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The Ambassador
Title: The Ambassador
Character: Stone
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: Movie
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
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Magash Hakesef
Title: Magash Hakesef
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Rocking Horse
Title: Rocking Horse
Character: עמינדב סוסעץ
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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Adam
Title: Adam
Released: January 13, 1974
Type: Movie
A handsome and successful surgeon, Dr. Dan Adam, sets out to refute a psychologist's thesis that "a man who recognizes his own self-worth will not kill or murder to solve his problems." Dr. Adam begins terrorizing the life of the psychologist and persecutes his wife and daughter.
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Title: The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Character: Felipillo
Released: October 5, 1969
Type: Movie
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.
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Iris
Title: Iris
Character: Yoram
Released: January 2, 1968
Type: Movie
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 17-year-old, he ends up lost in confusion.
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999 Aliza: The Policeman
Title: 999 Aliza: The Policeman
Character: Yaron Zinder
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Aliza mizrahi, the building cleaner, solves a murder where the police fails
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Hole in the Moon
Title: Hole in the Moon
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A comic and episodic satire, the film uses improvisation to illustrate the clash between fantasy and reality in real life. Although conceived in the style of Mekas’ “Hallelujah the hills” (1962), it’s an authentically Israeli satire, an openly rebellious and individualistic expression that poked fun at the sacred myths of earlier zionist films. The technique of film within the film is used to portray cinema as reflection of the imagination, a miracle based on dreams and fantasies that take on concrete characteristics – parallel to the miracle of Israel, the dream that has become reality. Although not a commercial success, its importance is beyond any measure, though it remains a unique experiment, boldly uncommercial and subversive, out of any context in that patriotic, ideological epoch.