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Directors: Avi Bohbot, Eitan Anner
Writers: Avi Bohbot, Eitan Anner
Producer: Igaal Ben David
Cast: Moshe Ivgi, Meir Swissa, Dalit Kahan
Release Date: Released in Israel, 1999. Israeli first channel 1
Source: IBA; Israeli Broadcasting authorities, Israeli channel 1
Comedy series | 30-50 Min Episode | Hebrew | 1998
Moshe Ivgi and Meir Suissa set off on a mission by the Israeli broadcasting company to document interesting and original stories all over the Land of Israel. Ivgi & Swissa are two Famous Israeli actors, invited to host a so called documentary show, “Ivgi Swissa Report” in the first Israeli channel. This will be a Mockumentary show; fictitious events will be presented in documentary format but the show is entirely scripted.
Episode 1: The Neighbor’s Border Is Greener
Ivgi & Swissa have a special and courageous mission – to look for and to mark the “Green Line”, the border between Israel and the Palestinians authorities.
Episode 2: The Messiah didn’t come
Ivgi & Swissa are sent to the Galilee, to find out why there are so many spiritual lunatics there. At the beginning of the mission Ivgi is convinced that he has had a spiritual awakening and found god.
Writers: Haim Idisis, Subtext team Producers: Avi Bohbot Source: Noga Communications Released: Arutz Hayeladim, Noga Communications, Israel
TV Comedy series | 15 Min. X 15 Episodes | Video Digital Beta SX | Language: Hebrew
A compilation of creative and humorous live action/animated shorts that revolve around a group of high school students and the silly situations they face during the day. Produced for the Kids Channel of Noga Communications.
He owns a small coffee bar with a lottery services. His wife recently died, and he falls in love with a Russian immigrant just as his beloved daughter comes back from a long journey in India. A winning lottery ticket is found in the coffee bar and he mistakenly thinks that the owner of the ticket is his lover’s dead father.
Max Leibovitch is a high ranking official from the French ministry of Finance. Having just arrived in Israel for a very important meeting, he gets sick with the ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’ and begins believing that he is the prophet Jonas. Thus, like the Jonas from the bible, he tries to escape of his holly mission.
At the same time in Tel Aviv, a young Israeli named Avi returns from India to find that his love Ivana, a Russian prostitute working in Igor’s whorehouse in the suburbs of the city, has been sold to another pimp. So, he decides to free her at any cost.
For this purpose, he steals a collective cab, but only too late does he realize that the vehicle is not empty, and he ends up bringing along in his crazy project a colorful troupe of characters: Hadassah, a sexy soldier, shelly, a new age waitress on her way to a love and meditation festival in the desert, Ilan, a religious student from a French yeshiva on a special mission for his “rebbe” and of course the French Jonas.
With the furious Georgian pimp on their trail the passengers connect and bond in an exciting journey. Chased by the mafia, by the police and by the French consul in Israel, their adventure will take them from the Holy City to Tel Aviv, to the sea-shore and finally to the middle of the desert where the adventure will climax in a love and meditation festival.
Emmanuel Naccache and Stephane Belaisch, long-time friends, co-wrote and co-directed “The Syndrome of Jerusalem”. Both of them were born in France and have been living in Israel over the last years. Because the international media only relate Israel to tanks, soldiers and wars, most people don’t know that this small country is rich with an amazing natural environment and breathtaking sceneries that include desert, sea, antique cities and more and that make it a perfect location for a road movie. But more than that, they were inspired by the spirit of freedom so specific to the Israeli youth, the research for love, tolerance, emotion and happiness, which they believe should inspire people all around the world. This is their first movie.
