Beyond the Sea
Directed byJacob Goldwasser
Written byHaim Marin
Produced byRonni Akerman
Marek Rozenbaum
StarringAryeh Moskona
Dafna Rechter
Moti Giladi
Mili Avital
Yair Lapid
CinematographyDavid Gurfinkel
Edited byAnat Lubarsky
Music byShlomo Gronich
Running time
91 minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguageHebrew
Mili Avital, Dafna Rechter, and Aryeh Moskona.
Yair Lapid in a scene from the film.

Beyond the Sea (Hebrew: מעבר לים, translit. Me'ever Layam, also known as Over the Ocean[1]) is a 1991 Israeli drama film directed by Jacob Goldwasser. It stars Aryeh Moskona, Dafna Rechter, Moti Giladi, and Mili Avital. Yair Lapid, who later became Prime Minister of Israel, was also in the cast.[2] The film, a family drama set in the 1960s, was critically acclaimed, and won the Ophir Award for Best Film.[3] The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[4]

Plot

In the film, starring Aryeh Moscona and Dafna Rechter in the role of Menachem and Rosa Greenberg, a couple of hard-pressed Holocaust survivors. Their friend, Maurice Greenspan (Motti Giladi), made his fortune in Canada in shady deals, and he is a stubborn type who implores the couple to emigrate from Israel to a better life in Canada. The son of the Greenburg's, Haim "Haymon" Greenberg (Uri Alter), aware of the growing conflicts in his parents' house due to the financial difficulties and the intervention of the mysterious friend, who secretly wooed his mother. His sister, Miri, (Milli Avital), a dull ten year old girl, that was captivated by Schultz "Haunterwaltnik" Pushtek's (Yair Lapid) charm. Additional participants in the film are Oshik Levy, as a taxi driver, a neighbor and friend of Menachem and Rosa Greenberg, Shai Adelson as Haymon's best friend and son of the taxi driver, Sinai Peter as Uncle Lazer from the kibbutz, who represents the Zionist antithesis to Morris' exile and slipperiness. In the end, after a crisis that threatens the world of one of the Greenberg's child, the family decides to stay in Israel.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Beyond the Sea at IMDb
  2. ↑ Pfeffer, Anshel (3 July 2022). "Yair Lapid takes power but can the Israeli Boris beat Bibi twice?". The Times. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  3. ↑ Leaman, Oliver (16 December 2003). Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Routledge. p. 333. ISBN 978-1-134-66252-4.
  4. ↑ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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