Amos Kollek

Amos Kollek ( Hebrew עמוס קולק; * 1947 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli film director and writer .

Live and act

Before Amos Kollek came to film, he was an established writer who not only deals with the present problems of Israel, but also, together with Teddy Kollek , his father and long-time mayor of Jerusalem, who wrote his autobiography, which is also available in German . Kollek, who is one of the most famous and respected independent filmmakers, is best known for his New York - his second home - based films: Sue - A Woman in New York , Bridget , Fiona , Fast Food, Fast Women , Death Strip . These “portraits of women full of cruel, painful, but always poetic-melancholy realism” with Anna Thomson in the respective leading roles, have helped him, who is often compared to Éric Rohmer , especially in Europe, to great success with critics and audiences. In addition, collectors but also shot films like Lulu: Forever , with Hanna Schygulla , Alec Baldwin and Debbie Harry the political thriller Three weeks in Jerusalem with Faye Dunaway and was himself the leading role in the production Do not ask me if I love to see .

Filmography

Director

• 1987: Forever: Lulu (Forever, Lulu / Crazy Streets)
• 1989: Death Strip
• 1992: Three weeks in Jerusalem (Three Weeks in Jerusalem / Double Edge / Lahav Hatzui)
• 1997: Sue - A Woman in New York (Sue Lost in Manhattan / Sue)
• 1998: Fiona
• 2000: Fast Food, Fast Women
• 2002: Bridget
• 2003: Happy End (Nowhere to Go But Up)
• 2007: Restless

script

• 1987: Forever: Lulu (Forever, Lulu / Crazy Streets)
• 1989: Death Strip
• 1992: Three weeks in Jerusalem (Three Weeks in Jerusalem / Double Edge / Lahav Hatzui)
• 1997: Sue - A Woman in New York (Sue Lost in Manhattan / Sue)
• 1998: Fiona
• 2000: Fast Food, Fast Women
• 2002: Bridget
• 2007: Restless

Further filmmaking

• Goodbye, New York (aka Crazy House ) (1985)
• Forever, Lulu (aka Crazy Streets ) (1987)
• High Stakes (aka Melanie Rose ) (1989)
• Lahav Hatzui (aka Double Edge ) (aka Three Weeks in Jerusalem ) (1992)
• Five Girls (aka Five Lesbian Girls ) (1993)
• Whore 2 (aka Bad Girls ) (1994)
• Teddy Kollek (aka Teddy Kollek, from Vienna to Jerusalem ) (1995)
• Angela (2000)
• Queenie in Love (2001)
• A Bitter Glory (2001) (TV)
• Beirut (2001)
• Music (2003)
• Chronicling a Crisis (2012)

Books (selection)

• You do not ask for love . 1972, ISBN 3-431-01492-5 (Original title: Don't Ask Me If I Love . Original edition: 1971).
• After They Hang Him (1977)
• Tishali Im Ani Ohev [script for Barbara Noble Tishali Im Ani Ohev ("Worlds Apart") movie] (1980)
• ha-Tapuah, ha-shir, veha-zahav (1980)
• One life for Jerusalem . 1992, ISBN 3-596-11269-9 .
• Approximately Clint Eastwood (1995)
• It happened in Gaza . 1996, ISBN 3-596-12850-1 .
• Parallel lives . 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-041109-9 .

Awards

• 1998: Berlin International Film Festival , FIPRESCI Prize (Panorama) for Sue - A Woman in New York
• 2000: Cannes International Film Festival , Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for Fast Food, Fast Women
• 2018: Moses Mendelssohn Medal , together with his sister Osnat Kollek

Web links

• Literature by and about Amos Kollek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Amos Kollek in the Internet Movie Database (English)