Samuel Maoz

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Samuel Maoz at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

Samuel Maoz ( Hebrew שמואל מעוז; * around 1962 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli director and screenwriter . He became known to an international audience through his feature film debut Lebanon (2009), which won him the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival as the first Israeli filmmaker .

Life

Samuel Maoz was born the son of a bus driver and a nurse. According to his own statements, he had always wanted to be a filmmaker and at the age of 13 was given an 8 mm film camera with his bar mitzvah . Around 1988 Maoz completed his training as a cameraman at the Beit Tzvi Art School . He then began working as a production designer on film and television productions. As a director, Maoz was responsible for directing documentaries such as the ARTE production Total Eclipse (2000) with Yevgenya Dodina , television series and theater productions.

After the beginning of the Lebanon War in 2006 , Maoz set about realizing his first feature film project Lebanon , which was to take three years to complete. In this he devoted himself to the Lebanon War of 1982 , in which he himself had participated as a young 20-year-old gunner of a tank crew and had been wounded. According to Maoz, he stayed in Lebanon for 45 days, 30 of which he described as "hell". In the script, Maoz processed personal experiences after his directors Joseph Cedar ( Beaufort , 2007) and Ari Folman ( Waltz with Bashir , 2008) had already devoted themselves to the Lebanon war and their personal past.

Lebanon describes the traumatic experiences of a four-man Israeli tank crew in a Lebanese village at the beginning of the war. "It took me 20 years before I had the strength to write the script," Maoz said in December 2006 before filming began. “When I was in Lebanon, it changed my life. I killed people while I was there. The film looks at very complicated problems. ”Maoz's directorial work was financially supported by the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen , among others , which emphasized that the film would remain“ entirely with the tank crew ”. "The war and the oppressive threat can only be seen through the viewfinder of the rifle scope."

At the end of July 2009, Maoz received an invitation to compete at the 66th Venice Film Festival for his feature film debut , where he won the main prize of the festival with the Golden Lion after the film festivals in Berlin and Cannes had previously rejected Lebanon . The majority of the German-speaking trade press expressed their enthusiasm for the film. Peter Zander ( Die Welt ) praised Lebanon as one of the most convincing competition entries, which "grows far beyond the concrete historical case into a general parable of the war", while the Austrian standard emphasized the conceptual idea of ​​the claustrophobic chamber play as an extremely effective means To address the imponderables of war. That same year, the film was nominated in ten categories for the Ophir Award , Israel's national film award, and won four awards. The 2010 European Film Prize was awarded five nominations in the categories of film, directing, screenplay, camera and editing and won the prizes for camera and first work.

In 2013 Maoz completed the short film Manybuy and was involved in the documentary Future Reloaded for the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival. In 2017, his second feature film, Foxtrot, followed , which won him his second invitation to the competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival . The international co-production with Lior Ashkenazi , Sarah Adler and Yonatan Shiray in the lead roles was announced at the end of 2014 as “a tragic family story about death, grief and guilt in Israel”. Although Maoz was behind Guillermo del Toro ( Shape of Water ) in Venice , Foxtrot was awarded the second most important prize, the Silver Lion as the Grand Prize of the jury.

Filmography

  • 2000: Total Eclipse (documentary)
  • 2009: Lebanon ( לבנון )
  • 2013: Manybuy (short film)
  • 2013: Venice 70: Future Reloaded (documentary)
  • 2017: Foxtrot

Awards (selection)

  • 2009: Golden Lion , SIGNIS Prize - Honorable Mention and Nazareno Taddei Prize at the Venice Film Festival for Lebanon
  • 2009: Human Values ​​Award of the Thessaloniki Film Festival for Lebanon
  • 2009: two Ophir nominations for Lebanon (Best Director, Best Screenplay)
  • 2010: two Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Lebanon (Grand Jury Prize, Best Screenplay)
  • 2010: European Film Award for Lebanon (best first work), three further nominations (best film, best director, best screenplay)
  • 2017: Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize, Arca CinemaGiovani Award and SIGNIS Award - Honorable Mention for Foxtrot

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Cooke, Rachel: Samuel Maoz: my life at war and my hopes for peace at theguardian.com, May 2, 2010 (accessed July 31, 2017).
  2. ↑ a b Profile ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at tiff.net (accessed on September 5, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tiff.net
  3. ↑ Head, Shula: Prima Dodina . In: The Jerusalem Post, May 30, 2003, p. 12
  4. ^ Venezia: Levanon, la guerra vista da un tank . ANSA , Aug 26, 2009 5:26 PM CET, Rome
  5. ↑ Jaafar, Ali: Israelis tackle Lebanese occupation . In: Variety , 12. – 18. June 2006, p. 12
  6. ^ NRW films in Venice . In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , July 31, 2009, p. 12
  7. ↑ Official Awards ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2010 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. at labiennale.org, September 12, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.labiennale.org
  8. ↑ Elley, Derek: US pics, 3-D fills out lineup ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2009 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. . In: Variety, August 31–6. September 2009 (accessed on September 5, 2009 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com
  9. ^ Zander, Peter: Putsch and War in Venice: German Competition Film Is Award-Winning at welt.de, September 9, 2009 (accessed on September 12, 2009)
  10. ↑ Kamalzadeh, Dominik: Lies have a long-term effect at derstandard.at, September 8, 2009 (accessed on September 12, 2009)
  11. ↑ EURIMAGES supports 15 European co-productions - four of them with German participation at ffa.de, December 17, 2014 (accessed on July 31, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Maoz, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maoz, Shmuel; Maoz, Shmuel; Maoz, Shmulik (English); Shmulik, Maoz (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv