Jacob Goldwasser

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Jacob Goldwasser (born  September 11, 1950 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli filmmaker, television writer and member of the Israeli Film Academy.

Life and work

Goldwasser's father lost his entire family in Poland during the Holocaust and immigrated from there to Israel in the 1930s. He did not want to come to terms with the constant threat and the demanding and hard life in Israel. The fact that he saw his own children in the army encouraged him to emigrate again. So Jacob Goldwasser came to Australia in the early 1960s , but after a year the family moved back to Israel because they were very homesick . The insatiable desire to belong to Israel made Jacob pray daily for it, an activity he had never done before. This longing taught him, the ten-year-old boy, the importance of an intact, cohesive family and a living home. He processed this experience in his later film "Over the Ocean" from 1991, in which the ten-year-old Haim Goldfarb also temporarily lost his home in 1962.

Goldwasser began his career with the movie Shalom in 1973. In 1982, the drama comedy Mitahat La'af was staged , which tells the story of four robbers who break into a safe at a police station in Jaffa . This film, which is based on a true story, has cult status in Israel and helped the great actors Moshe Ivgi and Uri Gavriel to break through in their film careers. The film won the special award at the French film festival. In 1991, Over the Ocean (Me'ever Layam) followed , which in the same year won the Ophir Award of the Israel Film Academy in nine categories . The main roles played Uri Alter as Haim Goldfarb, Arie Muskuna as his wife, and Daphna Rechter and Moti Giladi . In 2003 Goldwasser started a TV family episode with Jerusalem Mix (Meorav Yerushalmi) , in which Widwer Shimon Sadeh, played by Shmil Ben Ari (* 1952), embodies a traditional Israeli father. The film deals with secularism and religion in Israel and won the 2004 Israeli Television Academy Award for best actor. The series aired in two seasons and received three Academy Awards for television, including Ben-Ari, von Schwartz, and for the series itself in the Outstanding Drama Series category.

Goldwasser is a central figure in film advertising in Israel.

swell

  • Exposée for the film Over the Ocean , Transfax Film Productions, Tel Aviv 1991, p. 6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zipi Shohat: Battling the demons, on stage and in life , Haaretz , October 5, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Goldwasser, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli filmmaker, television writer and member of the Israeli Film Academy
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv