Haim Marin Movies
Screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival, this noirish thriller centers on a game of cat-and-mouse between ambitious detective Micha and Shalom, a former singer who is now the suspect in a burglary. Adding another twist to the game is Shalom's wife, an alluring femme fatale. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
- Starring:
- Moshe Ivgi, Aki Avni, (more)
- 1994
Popular Israeli comics Uri Gavriel and Moshe Ivgy star as hopelessly inept schemers Max and Morris, who fail to pay an outstanding debt to the big shot who helped launch Morris' fiancée to stardom as a big rock star, and instead hatch a plan to rob him blind. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Uri Gavriel, Moshe Ivgy, (more)
When Morris, a fellow survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, comes to visit him in Israel in 1962, Menachem is of course glad to see him. Morris' tales about nearly limitless prosperity and opportunity in Canada intrigue him also, since he is deeply worried about the future of his family in war-ridden Israel. Perhaps he should relocate his family to Toronto. Menachem's ten-year-old son Haim is far too busy playing games and planning dangerous forays into neighboring countries to notice his father's preoccupations, and his brother-in-law is ferociously dedicated to implementing socialist ideals in a strong Israel and is not about to leave. However, his daughter Miri has been seeing a bad sort of fellow and is in real danger of getting into trouble with him. He sends his daughter to Toronto to get her out of trouble but has second thoughts about leaving Israel for good. Over the Ocean won nine Israeli Academy Awards in 1991. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Arie Muskuna, Dafna Rechter, (more)
- 1982
Four men whose combined intellect does not reach into the triple digits decide to steal a safe full of foreign currency -- not from a local bank, but from the police station. Based on a real-life incident, the screenplay for this slapstick comedy-drama was co-written by a policeman (Haim Merin), lending a certain voice of authority to the setting, and the director Jacob Goldwasser. The comedic high point of the film is when the four thieves bumble and bang their way through the police station, while the policeman on guard duty slumbers on in blissful ignorance. The thieves may be running on more muscle than grey matter, more chemicals than Dow, and more luck than forethought, but they pull off the supposedly impossible robbery. From that point onward though, luck dwindles away as their greed surpasses their grasp of how to follow up on their success. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Uri Gavriel, Moshe Ivgi, (more)
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