The Way Up (1979)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The way up |
| Original title | נערת הפרברים |
| Country of production | Israel |
| original language | Hebrew |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | George Ovadiah |
| script |
Bezalel Aloni Michael Shvili |
| production | Michael Shvili Benni Shvily |
| music | Shaike Feikov |
| camera | Achsani Kodarella |
| cut | Zion Avrahamian |
| occupation | |
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The way up ( Hebrew נערת הפרברים, Na'arat ha-Parvarim , "Suburban Girls ") is a 1979 Israeli feature film directed by George Ovadiah . Ofra Haza , who made her film debut in a mixture of melodrama and musical, played the leading role .
action
Vered is a blind girl who sells candy and cigarettes for little money in Jaffa . Her parents once died in a traffic accident in which Vered was injured and lost her eyesight. One day she runs into the three workers Sussita, Chocho and Avi. You invite them to dinner, and from then on they meet every evening. As Sussita, Chocho and Avi are ashamed of their irresponsible lifestyle towards Vered, they pretend to be artists. They take her to the neighbors' abandoned apartment and pretend it is their house. Vered sings them a song one evening and Avi falls in love with her. That same evening, Vered tells the others that an operation could give her her eyesight. However, Vered doesn't have enough money.
When Sussita, Chocho and Avi have done just about anything to raise enough money for Vered's operation, Avi decides to rob the moneylender Yechezkel. Just as he is giving Vered the money, he and Chocho are arrested by the police. Sussita then leads Vered to the hospital, where she is operated on the same day. When Sussita wants to pick her up after the operation, Vered runs out of the hospital straight into the arms of another man who turns out to be a record producer. When he discovered her talent for singing, he and his assistant made Ruthi Vered a star under the name “Ofra”.
Some time later, when Avi and Chocho are released from prison, they recognize Vered's voice on the radio and her face in various magazines and posters. When Vered, now a famous pop singer, wants to give a concert in Jaffa, Sussita, Avi and Chocho go to the concert, where they all meet again.
Production and publication
The film was directed by George Ovadiah . The script was written by Bezalel Aloni and Michael Shvili , and Zion Avrahamian was responsible for editing . Shaike Feikov composed the music and Tali Magnos was the artistic director. Leading actress Ofra Haza remembered an "unrelaxed shooting time".
After the release in Israel in 1979, the film came out in West Germany on VMP on VHS .
Web links
- The way up in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amy Kronish, Costel Safirman: Israeli Film. A Reference Guide. 2003, p. 152
- ↑ haza.co.il ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
