Oded Teomi Movies
- 2007
As her retirement unfurls, ex-Mossad agent Rachel (Gila Almagor) unexpectedly comes face to face with a long-buried demon from her past in Israeli director Assaf Bernstein's haunting psychological thriller The Debt. Though Rachel lived out a central intelligence career packed with one earth-shaking climax after another, the highlight undoubtedly arrived in the mid-'60s, when she and colleagues Ehud and Zvi joined forces to successfully track down and exterminate a long-elusive Nazi war criminal ominously nicknamed "The Surgeon of Birkenau." Now, the mid-'90s have arrived, and Rachel attends the party to celebrate her recently published memoirs. Zvi suddenly crops up for the first time in years, with a haunting and compelling account of an elderly gentleman in a Kiev, Ukraine nursing home, who insists that he is actually the "real" surgeon. Director Bernstein co-mingles 1960s spy film visual style with the tale of a woman in her golden years summoned to perform one last mission, checking off an assignment left unrealized. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gila Almagor, Netta Garti, (more)
- 1992
Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond made his directorial debut with this drama. Gabor (Michael York), a stage actor living in Eastern Europe, receives a message from his family -- his father Raphael (also played by York), a world-famous archeologist, has just died in Israel. Traveling to the Holy Land to attend the funeral, he meets Katherine (Liv Ullmann), the woman who was married to Raphael at the time of his death, as well as Abu (Babi Neeman), a director who was making a film about the scientist's life and career. Gabor bears a striking resemblance to his father -- so much so that Abu asks him to play Raphael in a small role in his film. Gabor agrees, but playing the role forces him to examine a part of his life that he's been trying to leave alone all these years, and he also finds that Katherine, struck by his resemblance to her late husband, has become strongly attracted to him. The Long Shadow was filmed in part in Hungary, where Zsigmond was born and lived up until fleeing the country in 1956 following the political unrest of the nation's Soviet takeover. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael York, Liv Ullmann, (more)
This thrill-packed fact-based action-adventure from Israel chronicles the daring rescue of 104 passengers from a hijacked plane in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. The film is also known as Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Yehoram Gaon, Ori Levy, (more)
- 1969
In this relentlessly serious anthology film, amateur filmmaker Ya'acov Vardi looks at the frustrations of those who long for what they can't have. In the first, a couple is mismatched by age and social status: the woman is older, and her boyfriend is a pimp. In the second, a landlady has fantasies about the young men she rents her spare room to. In the third, an actor's experience of reality is seriously compromised. The final episode concerns a mistress, a betrayed wife, and the louse who is the common thread between them. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Oded Teomi
- 1969
Margo (Levana Finklstein) is a young woman saddled with the responsibility of caring for her siblings because of her absent mother and drunken father. With little time to think of her own feelings, she falls in love with a university professor and has her first love affair. Scenes of the Golan Heights are depicted, as are the Wailing Wall, the Mosque of Omar and the Christmas procession of the faithful Catholics. Arabs and Jews live side-by-side in this feature that reflects a hopeful situation for the future of Israel. After doing so much for others, Margo allows herself to experience the feelings of love, although the affair could lead to heartbreak for the young woman and unemployment for the unhappily married college professor. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Levana Finklstein, Oded Teomi, (more)
Blaumilch (Bomba Zur) is a patient in an asylum who manages to escape by sneaking onto a milk truck. He is dropped off in the middle of downtown Tel Aviv, where a road construction crew is busy making repairs. Blaumilch grabs a jackhammer and begins to dig a hole in the road. The police halt traffic, believing he is part of the road crew. The irate mayor demands an investigation and finds no one willing to admit that they were unaware of the hole-digging project. Through a series of bureaucratic bungles, departments clamor to receive credit for the unauthorized dig. Soon heavy equipment is called for to aid in the endeavor that everyone is afraid not to know about, as the hole becomes a canal that eventually reaches to the sea. When an official discovers the whole project is a mistake, he is hauled off to the asylum. Blaumilch, feeling his efforts have been overlooked, begins digging another hole in this satirical comedy. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bomba Zur, Shraga Friedman, (more)
- 1960
This respectable but uninspired film by novice Baruch Dienar is in Hebrew, was shot in Galilee, and tells the story of ten settlers at the end of the 19th century. Josef (Oded Teomi) and his wife Manya (Ninette Linar), as well as eight other men, arrive in Galilee from Eastern Europe, intent on making a go of farming. If farming were their only challenge, then life would be normal. But they are faced with poor terrain, antagonistic Turkish rulers, and animosity from their Arab neighbors. Water and land rights are at stake as religious and ethnic biases pile up and cause friction. Aside from these contretemps, there is a universal threat to survival when everyone is hit by a long drought. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Oded Teomi, Leo Filler, (more)
