Sasson Gabai

Sasson Gabai

Born: November 24, 1947
in Baghdad, Iraq
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Sasson Gabai (also Sasson Gabay) - is an Israeli actor, Jewish and originally from Iraq. He works in Israeli cinema. He has won Award of the Israeli Film Academy, Asia Pacific Screen Award, European Film Awards and Jerusalem Film Festival in 2007 as Best Actor in a highly acclaimed Israeli film "The Band's Visit".

He is leading and prolific actors in Israel.

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Movies for Sasson Gabai...

Karaoke
Title: Karaoke
Character: Meir
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Meir (Sasson Gabay of The Band’s Visit and Shtisel) and Tova (Rita Shukrun) are a long-married couple living in an upscale high-rise in Tel Aviv. Itzik (Lior Ashkenazi) is their new neighbor, a worldly modeling agent and bachelor. The couple attend Itzik’s karaoke parties and soon become obsessed with him, competing with each other, and other residents of the building, for his attention.
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Where Life Begins
Title: Where Life Begins
Released: June 16, 2022
Type: Movie
An ultra-orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in southern Italy for a brief stay every year to carry out a sacred mission: harvesting citrons. Here Elio, the farm owner, meets Esther, the rabbi’s daughter, who is tired of the constraints imposed by her religion. Through this relationship, Esther will understand the importance of freedom and find her path, and, in the same way, Elio will find the peace he had lost for a long time.
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Title: WeCrashed
Character: Doron Neumann
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: TV
Inspired by actual events — and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its valuation dropped $40 billion. What happened?
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Black Notebooks
Title: Black Notebooks
Released: July 7, 2021
Type: Movie
With this two-part feature documentary, Shlomi Elkabetz shares a poignant love letter to his sister, the late actress and director Ronit Elkabetz, and delivers a rare cinematic experience.
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Oslo
Title: Oslo
Character: Shimon Peres
Released: May 29, 2021
Type: Movie
The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.
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Abu Eli
Title: Abu Eli
Released: June 23, 2019
Type: Movie
The friendship between Avi, a former drug addict, and Jaber, a Sudanese refugee, is in danger. It is Jabber's last day before being sent to Holot Detention Facility, and Avi decides to take matters into his own hands.
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A Brother’s Love
Title: A Brother’s Love
Character: Hichem
Released: June 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s life significantly alters their dynamic.
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The Other Story
Title: The Other Story
Character: Shlomo Abadi
Released: October 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Tto rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom - cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.
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Title: Stockholm
Character: Amos Barazani
Released: July 16, 2018
Type: TV
The black comedy starts with the death of Avishai Sar-Shalom, a renowned economist and leading Nobel prize candidate. His body is found by his four close old friends, and moments before calling an ambulance, one of them brings up with an idea. Only a few days separate between an economy professor that would be forgotten and a Nobel Prize winner.
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The Angel
Title: The Angel
Character: Anwar Sadat
Released: May 15, 2018
Type: Movie
True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
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The Kind Words
Title: The Kind Words
Released: May 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Follows three brothers who are going to discover the greatest secret of their late mother. This trip is going to change their lives.
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Title: Sirens
Character: Uzi Reguan
Released: November 27, 2014
Type: TV
Sirens is a thriller set in Eilat. It revolves around Shelley Toledano, 32, a policewoman with the Illegal Aliens unit, which is mostly devoted to documenting and following refugees from Africa who infiltrate the city through its border with Egypt. Shelley is rugged and outspoken, and used to the difficult sights that come with the job. But one day, when the body of the person closest to her is found, her life is turned upside down.
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Title: Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Character: Simeon Amsalem
Released: June 25, 2014
Type: Movie
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
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Kidon
Title: Kidon
Released: August 24, 2013
Type: Movie
"Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It was the first time that simple security cameras of a hotel caught secret agents red-handed, what's more Israeli agents. But without doubt, the most surprised of all were the Mossad leaders who were the only ones to know for sure that the 3 men and the woman, whose faces were in all the newsrooms of the world, had nothing to do with them. From then on, a race against time is undertaken hoping to understand why everything is aiming at them.
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Hunting Elephants
Title: Hunting Elephants
Character: Elijah
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for cheating the youngster after the death of his father.
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Title: Shtisel
Character: Nukhem Shtisel
Released: June 29, 2013
Type: TV
Akiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony overlooking streets of the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem. A year has passed since the mother died. All the other children have left the nest, and only Shulam and Akiva remain - quarreling, making up, and laughing about themselves and the rest of the world. All will change when Akiva meets Elisheva.
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When Pigs Have Wings
Title: When Pigs Have Wings
Character: Jafaar
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: Movie
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting: imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar.
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Restoration
Title: Restoration
Character: Yaakov Fidelman
Released: August 25, 2011
Type: Movie
A drama about a family's effort to save their antique restoration business.
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Title: Polishuk
Character: Rubi Polishuk
Released: May 31, 2009
Type: TV
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Hello Goodbye
Title: Hello Goodbye
Character: Le Chef de la Police
Released: November 26, 2008
Type: Movie
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis. Following a dream vacation to Israel where Alain (Depardieu) explores his Jewish roots, Gisèle (Ardant) insists they change their life and move to Tel Aviv. While Gisèle, a Jewish convert, finds her new life inspiring; Alain fights to embrace Hebrew, Jewish tradition and a new circumcision. Will Alain and Gisèle learn whether Shalom represents Hello or Goodbye?
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The Band's Visit
Title: The Band's Visit
Character: Tewfiq Zakaria
Released: May 19, 2007
Type: Movie
A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.
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Aviva, My Love
Title: Aviva, My Love
Character: Oded Zar
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to Oded, an accomplished novelist. Immediately recognizing Aviva's talent, Oded takes her under his wing, promising to help her achieve greatness. But the journey to greatness effects her life and the lives of her family - her unemployed husband, her trouble children, her unstable mother, and primarily her sister, a funny and sensitive woman who have her own dreams. When Aviva discovered that Oded has other plans for her work, her world collapses.
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Year Zero
Title: Year Zero
Character: Guide-Dogs Trainer
Released: June 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Through a mosaic of stories intertwined and created a current picture of the sad social and economic situation in Israel. Mother forced into prostitution to support her son; Blind man must survive after losing his dog; Son is looking for his rocker father's; Apartment owner complicates his life while entering the underworld...
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Made in Israel
Title: Made in Israel
Character: Perach
Released: September 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Two pairs of assassins are sent by a holocaust survivor's son to bring the last Nazi for a show trial in Israel.
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The Order
Title: The Order
Character: Yuri
Released: May 5, 2001
Type: Movie
When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police chief. Now, to find his dad and recover a sacred scroll, he'll have to outwit officials and a ruthless sect. With the help of a beautiful Israeli cop, Rudy battles a faction of religious zealots determined to see a holy war at all costs.
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Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol
Title: Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol
Character: Minister Oman
Released: October 5, 2000
Type: Movie
An elite commando unit must rescue a captured peacekeeping force from a ruthless international arms dealer.
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Escape: Human Cargo
Title: Escape: Human Cargo
Character: Suliman Nasir Rasi
Released: March 22, 1998
Type: Movie
An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due to the US policy of noninterference in SA, the embassy won't help him. He must escape.
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The Patriots
Title: The Patriots
Character: Cop 1 Israel
Released: June 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist.
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Blink of an Eye
Title: Blink of an Eye
Character: Khalil
Released: August 26, 1992
Type: Movie
An agent with psychic powers comes to the rescue of the kidnapped daughter of the CIA director.
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Not Without My Daughter
Title: Not Without My Daughter
Character: Hamid
Released: January 11, 1991
Type: Movie
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
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The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Title: The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Character: Marwan Khreesat
Released: December 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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The Quarry
Title: The Quarry
Character: Moshe David
Released: June 6, 1990
Type: Movie
Israel, Fifties... Two men are fighting for the love of one woman in the quarry.
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Steal the Sky
Title: Steal the Sky
Character: Kamel Djern
Released: August 26, 1988
Type: Movie
An Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.
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Rambo III
Title: Rambo III
Character: Mousa
Released: May 24, 1988
Type: Movie
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
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The Impossible Spy
Title: The Impossible Spy
Character: General Haled
Released: November 28, 1987
Type: Movie
This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
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Deadline
Title: Deadline
Character: Bossam
Released: July 2, 1987
Type: Movie
An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.
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Title: סיפורים לשעת לילה מאוחרת
Character: מתבודד תמהוני
Released: March 2, 1987
Type: TV
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The Ambassador
Title: The Ambassador
Character: Arab Student
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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Title: Eretz Moledet
Released: November 1, 1981
Type: TV
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Title: Zehu Ze
Released: July 2, 1978
Type: TV
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.