Hanna Laslo

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Hanna Laslo ( Hebrew חנה לסלאו; * June 14, 1953 in Jaffa ) is an Israeli cabaret artist , comedian and actress .

Life

Hanna Laslo was born in Jaffa in 1953, where she grew up with three other siblings. The daughter of two Auschwitz survivors served in the Israeli army from 1972 to 1973 . There she came into contact with acting during her military service as a member of the musical theater group of the Southern Command . From the mid-1970s, Laslo was sporadically represented with supporting roles in Israeli feature film productions, both in comedies such as Assi Dayan's Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (1975) and Joel Silberg's Millioner Betzarot (1978), as well as in dramas such as Dayan's Am Yisrael Hai (1981) or Silberberg's Kuni Leml B'Kahir (1983). Laslo gained notoriety as a cabaret artist and comedian in the 1980s and 1990s through a series of one-woman shows in the Israeli theater, with which she later appeared on television, including the characters of grandmother Zapta and cleaning lady Clara. For her programs she uses her childhood memories of life in the immigrant neighborhoods of old Jaffa as well as the Holocaust . As a comedic mentor, Laslo names her father, a hatter who spoke fluent Yiddish and brought her closer to humor. She was awarded a prize in 2004 for her stand-up comedy program More Hanna than Laslo , with which she had performed at the Tel Aviv Givatayim Theater, among others.

Hanna Laslo first achieved film success in 2003 with Amos Gitai's ensemble film Alila , which tells the individual fates of people who all live in a poor apartment building in a suburb of Tel Aviv. For the supporting role of Mali, the divorced wife of a former Israeli army officer who falls in love with a younger man and her adolescent son's desertion awards, she was nominated in the same year for the first time for the price of the Israeli Film Academy. Two years later, Gitai entrusted her with one of the leading female roles in his drama Free Zone (2005), which is set against the backdrop of the Middle East conflict . The role of the resolute Israeli taxi driver Hanna Ben Moshe, who sets out to the eponymous free trade zone on the border with Jordan together with a young American (played by Natalie Portman ) and a Palestinian woman ( Hiam Abbass ) , brought her to 58 Cannes Film Festival won the prize for best actress , where she was able to assert herself against such established actors as the British Charlotte Rampling ( Lemming ) or the American Maria Bello ( A History of Violence ). Laslo dedicated the first win of an Israeli actress in Cannes to her mother and, in her short acceptance speech, called on Israelis and Palestinians to enter into dialogue "in order to resolve the problems" . In 2007 she was part of the acting ensemble of Paul Schrader's Holocaust drama A Life for a Life - Adam Resurrected , along with Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe , which premiered at the 57th Berlin Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1975: Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona
  • 1977: Hatzilu Et HaMatzil
  • 1978: Belfer
  • 1978: Millionaire Betzarot
  • 1981: At the Yisrael Hai
  • 1983: Kuni Leml B'Kahir
  • 2003: Alila
  • 2005: Free Zone
  • 2008: Shiva
  • 2008: A Life for a Life - Adam Resurrected ( Adam Resurrected )
  • 2009: ultimatum
  • 2010: Havurat Rosh Kruv
  • 2011: Pourquoi tu pleures?
  • 2014: elsewhere

Awards

Ophir

  • 2003: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Alila
  • 2005: Nominated for Best Actress for Free Zone

Further

Cannes International Film Festival

  • 2005 : Best Actress for Free Zone

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Hollersen, Wiebke: A president with part-time jobs and a pregnant woman at work . In: Berliner Zeitung, February 10, 2007, issue 35, features section, p. 29
  2. ↑ a b c d cf. CNN interview between Kyra Phillips and Hanna Laslo, May 26, 2005
  3. ↑ cf. Radoszkowicz, Abigail: What's on . In: The Jerusalem Post, January 1, 2004, Arts, p. 22
  4. ↑ cf. Cannes Golden Palm sensational goes to Belgium , Agence France Presse, May 22, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Laslo, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laszlo, Hana; Laslau, Hanna; Laslow, Hannah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli cabaret artist, comedian and actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Jaffa