Assi Dayan

Assi Dayan

Born: November 23, 1945
Died: May 1, 2014

Movies for Assi Dayan...

Beethoven's Last Laugh
Title: Beethoven's Last Laugh
Character: Beethoven
Released: May 2, 2019
Type: Movie
A film director is out to get what he wants at any cost, even if it means murder, oblivious to the fact the woman he trusts is actually working against him.
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Dr. Pomerantz
Title: Dr. Pomerantz
Character: ד"ר יואל פומרנץ
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Doctor Yoel Pomerantz is a washed-up, self-loathing psychologist who lives on the 12th floor of a high-rise with his Aspberger's son, Yoav, who spends his days pretending to be a traffic cop and proudly giving out parking tickets. Dr. Pomerantz sees a few patients a week, barely enough to keep he and Yoav in ramen noodles and with a roof over their heads. In addition, he works shifts at a suicide hotline. When he gets desperate financially, he recruits hotline callers to see him privately, which is discovered and results in his getting unceremoniously fired.
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Carmel
Title: Carmel
Released: July 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.
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Love Life
Title: Love Life
Character: Jaras Professor
Released: November 8, 2007
Type: Movie
A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
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Only Dogs Run Free
Title: Only Dogs Run Free
Released: October 10, 2007
Type: Movie
A successful lawyer, who has traumatic memories from his army service, is testifying against his best friend from his unit. His wife, a social-worker, is trying to save a poor family named Siton. The couple's life collapses when the wife get raped by a gang.
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Jellyfish
Title: Jellyfish
Character: Eldad
Released: May 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.
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My Father My Lord
Title: My Father My Lord
Character: Rabbi Abraham Eidelmann
Released: April 4, 2007
Type: Movie
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional gap between the impish child and the stern father. When the father's all-consuming obsession with observing religious ritual inadvertently leads to tragedy, his previously subservient wife rages against both her husband and God. A dramatic retelling of the story of Abraham.
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Title: The Israelis
Released: February 12, 2007
Type: TV
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Things Behind the Sun
Title: Things Behind the Sun
Character: Itzhak
Released: November 30, 2006
Type: Movie
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own family: his wife, a long suppressed artist whose life's dream is fulfilled that same week; his twenty-seven-year-old son - a "philosopher" still living at home; and his twenty-five-year-old daughter - a tormented lesbian who has had no contact with her family for a long time. Itzhak doesn't realize, though, that his ten year old daughter, Didush, neglected and almost invisible to her family, is secretly visiting her grandfather whom she has never met previously and sets out to discover the old family secret.
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Comrade
Title: Comrade
Character: Avraham
Released: May 18, 2006
Type: Movie
After discovering that his father has lied to him for years about his estranged sister and his mother, 14-year-old Ilan runs away from home and ends up living with his sister, Dalia, who works on a cruise ship and is having an affair with a married man. While Dalia is at work, Ilan explores her down-and-out neighborhood and discovers and befriends Avram, an elderly holdout Communist living in an abandoned building with his weapons cache and marijuana-growing business, biding his time for the ultimate battle against the capitalists.
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Out of Sight
Title: Out of Sight
Character: Rephael
Released: January 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Ya'ara, a blind PhD candidate in Mathematics at Princeton University, hears of her cousin Talia's suicide. Ya'ara rushes back to Israel. They were best of friends and twin spirits. Talia saw for both of them, and was always the one who believed and led Ya'ara to believe, that in spite of her blindness, Ya'ara could see everything. Ya'ara joins Talia's family for the traditional 7-day mourning period and there, she discovers the secrets of Talia's life and embarks on an investigation trying to discover the reason that led Talia to commit suicide.
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Title: BeTipul
Character: Re'uven Dagan
Released: August 28, 2005
Type: TV
BeTipul is an Israeli television drama revolving around the personal and professional life of an Israeli psychologist, Reuven Dagan, played by Assi Dayan. The series portrays a psychologist who treats patients at his clinic five days a week and then seeks psychological treatment for himself. Filmmaker Ari Folman served as the head writer of the series.
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Campfire
Title: Campfire
Character: Motkeh
Released: September 2, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
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The Gospel According to God
Title: The Gospel According to God
Character: God
Released: May 13, 2004
Type: Movie
A universal anti-religious satire which occurs in the latter of 2001 and deals with the life of God and his son Jesus. While Jesus is trained and sent to bring redemption, God is desperately seeking for the meaning of his only incomprehensible creation - Love.
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Title: Eretz Nehederet
Character: Re'uven Dagan
Released: November 2, 2003
Type: TV
An Israeli satire show featuring satirical references to current affairs of the past week through parodies of the people involved, as well as the thoughts of recurring characters. One of the most watched and influential shows on Israeli TV.
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The Silence of the Sirens
Title: The Silence of the Sirens
Character: Moshe Dayan
Released: October 1, 2003
Type: Movie
The 10 days that came before the horrible 1973 Yom Kippur War.
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Open Heart
Title: Open Heart
Character: Abraham Lazar
Released: November 21, 2002
Type: Movie
This beautiful love story that start's in Israel and going through all scene's of India, it's cultural, beauty and religions traditions brings us to the question: "What is this love?"...
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Title: The Brown Girls
Character: Yechezkel (Hezi) Brown
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: TV
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A Matter of Reputation
Title: A Matter of Reputation
Released: July 5, 2001
Type: Movie
A well-known middle-aged director who reached the top of the world cinema, won an Oscar and is now a pathetic drinker who lives in a stale apartment at the expense of a young woman. A brilliant young pianist who in his youth expected him to climb to the top of world music and is now a dangerous and wanted criminal. A senior doctor in the hospital, a drug addict, who must wait patiently for surgery until his hands stop shaking. A young nurse whose parents, in which she nursed, abused her and lamented that she had to die in the place of her soldier brother. Everyone meets when a poor film producer arrives and invites the director out of the gutter and write a script for him. The film, as well as the screenplay written by the director, track these lost souls crossing each other's paths in the no-go paths in which they roam.
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The Glow
Title: The Glow
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Uriel Morag, a retired general with a glorious past that includes some less than glorious episodes, has, like many other army officers, graduated into an executive ministerial job. Self-important, overweight and - in his own mind - indispensable, he heads for the countryside with Mona, his latest bimbo, for a weekend away. But as he drives his BMW towards the village farm of two friends from his military past, he and his love are transported into a twisted Through The Looking Glass-style version of present day Israel.
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Time of Favor
Title: Time of Favor
Character: Rabbi Meltzer
Released: November 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Is today's fanaticism tomorrow's policy? In a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Meltzer has a grand design: he's building a movement "to pray at the Temple Mount." His yeshiva has scholars, and the settlement is getting its own military company to be commanded by Menachem, a disciple of the rabbi. He also wants his daughter, Michal, to marry Pini, the yeshiva's best scholar. Michal has no interest in Pini, but she is attracted to Menachem. When she rebuffs Pini, he hatches a bold and secret plan. Is jealousy the motivation or something else? Meanwhile, the army and Moussad are closely watching the rabbi's activities and Menachem's military training. Who is trustworthy?
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No Names on the Doors
Title: No Names on the Doors
Released: February 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Set on a modern kibbutz, as the spectre of an Arab invasion lurks in the backgroun,d and financial pressures are breaking down traditional communal values, a series of fragile, interwoven stories mirror this disintegration of collective ideal.
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Short Stories About Love
Title: Short Stories About Love
Released: January 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Israeli short films mini-series.
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Mr. Baum
Title: Mr. Baum
Character: Mickey Baum
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain tumor and will die in 90 minutes.
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Things
Title: Things
Character: Caesar
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Drama - This Israeli drama tells the story of three men living in Tel Aviv. They set off to attend a funeral. Unfortunately, they cannot find the right cemetery. Later the story shifts to their complex love lives. - Gabi Beniashvilly, Samuel Calderon, Helena Cherkasov
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The War After
Title: The War After
Released: May 23, 1991
Type: Movie
A story of an army colonel who is fighting the accusations in committing war crime but his only witness is comatose in the hospital.
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Title: John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Bad
Title: The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Bad
Released: June 6, 1987
Type: Movie
The prisoner sentence to a very long time gets visitation home in order to meet his wife. The only problem is that he got a company - one of the prison guards.
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The Delta Force
Title: The Delta Force
Character: Raffi Amir
Released: February 14, 1986
Type: Movie
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
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When Night Falls
Title: When Night Falls
Character: Giora
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Giora (Assi Dayan) runs a bar and dreams of opening a restaurant. He has made a mess of his life — his marriage is in trouble, since he is pathologically cheating on his wife; his parents (Yosef Millo and Orna Porat) have separated; and his father arrives for an extended visit from Nahariya. Giora spends time with his army buddies, recalling their experiences during the War in Lebanon. His father is undergoing a major life crisis and finds both the loneliness of the city and his son's lifestyle unappealing. As a non-Jew in a Jewish society, he feels estranged, an outsider who has never been able to adapt, and contemplates suicide. Eventually, Giora's parents decide to attempt a reconciliation, until tragedy strikes.
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Beyond the Walls
Title: Beyond the Walls
Character: Assaf
Released: September 27, 1984
Type: Movie
In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri's daughter and Issan's wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside.
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Each Other
Title: Each Other
Character: Avi
Released: May 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Anne, a Parisian, visits her friend Yola in Tel Aviv, where Yola lives with her husband Avi and their son. There's tension in the air and the attraction between the two women is palpable. Flash back five years to their meeting, on a train to Jerusalem. Yola invites Anne to stay at her hotel, and over the next five days, their friendship builds from talk about their lives to an explosive menage a trois when Avi joins them on fourth day. Back in the present, can Yola have both Avi and Anne, or are the women futilely chasing rainbows?
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The Uranium Conspiracy
Title: The Uranium Conspiracy
Character: Dan
Released: August 10, 1978
Type: Movie
This feature was shot in the midst of some of Europe's most stunning scenery. The story focuses on the efforts of an espionage agent, played by Italian heartthrob Fabio Testi, to secure a uranium shipment that has been targeted by an enemy power.
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Operation Thunderbolt
Title: Operation Thunderbolt
Character: Shuki
Released: June 6, 1977
Type: Movie
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages.
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Title: לויתן בחוף שרתון
Character: dudu
Released: February 3, 1977
Type: TV
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The Sell Out
Title: The Sell Out
Character: Lt. Elan
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.
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Three in One
Title: Three in One
Released: April 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A man traumatized by war memories works as a tour guide on the sea. He starts a relationship with a young woman from the nearby hippie commune.
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Fifty Fifty
Title: Fifty Fifty
Character: The 1st Thief
Released: November 17, 1971
Type: Movie
In this Israeli comedy, the baker has half a winning lottery ticket, and his deceased partner has the other. In order to benefit from winning, somebody needs to put the two together. The baker searches stealthily for the missing half, so do the dead partner's son-in-law and a group of thieves who hear of this potential windfall. There is some slapstick as this group chases one or another of its member through the streets and shops of Tel-Aviv
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Promise at Dawn
Title: Promise at Dawn
Character: Romain Kacew age 25
Released: November 25, 1970
Type: Movie
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
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Death of a Jew
Title: Death of a Jew
Character: David Shimon
Released: April 29, 1970
Type: Movie
A confrontation between two enemies. One is a young, captured Israeli agent and the other an older Arab inspector who tries to get the agent talk by making him regain his desire to live.
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Ride This Way Grey Horse
Title: Ride This Way Grey Horse
Character: Heron of Fois
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Making of A Walk with Love and Death.
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A Walk with Love and Death
Title: A Walk with Love and Death
Character: Heron of Fois
Released: October 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Attempting to evade the turmoil of France's Hundred Years' War, Parisian student Heron of Foix decides to journey to the sea. En route, he meets the pretty aristocrat Lady Claudia, and the couple begin a romance amid the intense conflict. As the struggle between peasants and noblemen rages on, Heron and Claudia take shelter at a monastery -- but even their newfound love can't completely keep the horrors of war at bay.
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La battaglia del Sinai
Title: La battaglia del Sinai
Character: Jossi
Released: February 6, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Dress
Title: The Dress
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Three short stories of life in Tel Aviv; A girl meets a boy in a library and has to decide what to do next; A young husband comes home to meet his wife's boyfriend; A young clerk opens a letter and finds the photograph of an unknown young girl who he then tries to locate.
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Five Days in Sinai
Title: Five Days in Sinai
Character: Jossi
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
During the Six Day War between Egypt and Israel a crack team of soldiers are sent on a dangerous mission and end up getting stranded in the desert, where they are forced to fight off numerous attacks by the enemy.
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He Walked Through the Fields
Title: He Walked Through the Fields
Character: Uri
Released: June 6, 1967
Type: Movie
Uri, the first son of a "kibbutz", comes home from 2 years of studying. He finds his father has joined the British army, and his mother is with another man. He meets Mika - a new immigrant from Poland - and quickly falls in love with her. He is then torn between his commitment to his home family and girl, and between the "Palmakh".
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Scouting Patrol
Title: Scouting Patrol
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Israeli soldiers cross the border into hostile Arab territory to kidnap an enemy terrorist. After the man is captured, the Israeli unit receives warning of an enemy counter attack, and the unit is forced to trek through the desert on foot.