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Igal Naor
Igal Naor (; born ) is an Israeli actor, sometimes credited as Yigal Naor. Biography Naor was born in Givatayim, Israel, to Mizrahi Jewish parents from Iraq. He has appeared in the American films ''Munich'', ''Green Zone'' and '' Rendition''. Naor portrayed Saddam Hussein in the four-episode ''House of Saddam'' television docudrama from BBC and HBO (2008), in an acclaimed performance. In Season 5, Episode 4 of ''Homeland'', he portrays General Youssef, a high-ranking Syrian military officer whom the CIA wants to install in place of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He also appeared in the Netflix series, Fauda. Selected filmography * ''Deadline'' (1987) – Antoine * ''The Seventh Coin'' (1993) – Grocer * ''The Mummy Lives'' (1993) – Egyptology Official * '' Saint Clara'' (1996) – Headmaster Tissona * ''Ha-Dybbuk B'sde Hatapuchim Hakdoshim'' (1997; also known as ''Ahava Asura'') – Sender * ''Miss Entebbe'' (2003) – Avram * ''Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi'' (2003) – Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Givatayim
Givatayim () is a city in Israel east of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area. Givatayim was established in 1922 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah. In it had a population of . The name of the city comes from the "two hills" on which it was established: Borochov Hill and Kozlovsky Hill. Kozlovsky is the highest hill in the Gush Dan region at above sea level. The city was expanded in the 1930s so that today it is actually situated on 4 hills, Borochov, Kozlovsky, the Poalei HaRakevet ("railroad workers"), and Rambam Hill. History Antiquity Archaeological remains of a Chalcolithic settlement have been found at the site of what is now Givatayim. British Mandate era The modern town was founded on April 2, 1922 by a group of 22 Second Aliyah pioneers led by David Schneiderman. The group purchased 300 dunams () of land on the outskirts of Tel Aviv that became the Borochov Neighbourhood (''Shechunat/Shekhunat Borochov''), the first workers' neighbourhood in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djihad (film)
''Djihad!'' is a 2006 French drama television film by director and writer Félix Olivier. Plot The lives and destinies of five French characters intersect during the Iraq War. Three young French Arabs (Cherif, Karim, and Youssef) each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans. Delphine LeGuen, a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war, gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents. Meanwhile, a mid-level French diplomat, Hugo Bessieres, uncovers French corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support his country's effort to prevent the war. Cast * Adel Bencherif as Karim * Marianne Denicourt as Delphine Le Guen * Thierry Frémont as Hugo Bessières * Saïd Taghmaoui Saïd Taghmaoui (; born 19 July 1973) is a French actor. One of his major screen roles was that of Saïd in the 1995 French film '' La Haine'', directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Taghmaoui has also appeared in a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Promise (2016 American Film)
''The Promise'' is a 2016 American Epic film, epic historical drama, historical War film, war Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Terry George, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Robin Swicord. Set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the film stars Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale. The plot is about a love triangle that develops between Mikael (Isaac), an Armenians, Armenian medical student, Chris (Bale), an American journalist, and Ana (Le Bon), an Armenian-born woman raised in France, immediately before and during the Armenian genocide. ''The Promise'' premiered on September 11, 2016, at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and was released by Open Road Films in the United States on April 21, 2017, on the 102nd anniversary of the week the genocide started. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a Box-office bomb, box office bomb, grossing just $12 million against its $90 million budg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Women's Balcony
''The Women's Balcony'' () is a 2016 Israeli comedy film directed by Emil Ben-Shimon. The film stars Evelin Hagoel, Yigal Naor, Orna Banai and Aviv Alush. The film follows a Mizrahi synagogue congregation in Jerusalem's Bukharan Quarter. The congregation is in disarray from building damage to their synagogue. A charismatic and handsome young rabbi (Alush) promises to rebuild the synagogue, but seeks to move the community in a far more conservative direction. A major critical and commercial success, ''The Women's Balcony'' was nominated for six Ophir Awards in Israel.Awards IMDB. Retrieved on 6 April 2024 Plot An orthodox congregation in Jerusalem is celebrating a when a section ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
False Flag (TV Series)
''False Flag'' () is an Israeli television thriller drama series. Directed by Oded Ruskin and starring Ishai Golan, the plot involves five ordinary Israelis who wake up one morning and discover that their names, faces, and personal details have been splashed across the world’s media on suspicion of involvement in a high-profile kidnapping. A remake of the series starring Uma Thurman, called '' Suspicion'', aired on Apple TV+ in February 2022. Synopsis The series revolves around five ordinary Israeli citizens who discover one morning via the media that they are the principal suspects of a high-profile kidnapping and are implicated as culprits in the kidnapping. They are involved in a brutal kidnapping of the Iranian minister of defense, Farhead Sulimani, during his visit to Moscow on 15 April 2015, having arrived in the country earlier that day from London under an alias and using one of several passports. According to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Sulimani was dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darius I
Darius I ( ; – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE. He ruled the empire at its territorial peak, when it included much of West Asia, parts of the Balkans (Skudra, Thrace–Achaemenid Macedonia, Macedonia and Paeonia (kingdom), Paeonia) and the Caucasus, most of the Black Sea's coastal regions, Central Asia, the Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley, Indus Valley in the far east, and portions of North Africa and Northeast Africa including History of Persian Egypt, Egypt (), eastern ancient Libya, Libya, and coastal The Sudans, Sudan. Darius ascended the throne by overthrowing the Achaemenid monarch Bardiya (or ''Smerdis''), who he claimed was in fact an imposter named Gaumata. The new king met with rebellions throughout the empire but quelled each of them; a major event in Darius's life was his expedition to subjugate Ancient Greece, Greece and punish Classical At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rise Of An Empire
Rise of an Empire could refer to * '' The Settlers: Rise of an Empire'', a 2007 video game * '' 300: Rise of an Empire'', a 2014 movie * '' Young Money: Rise of an Empire'', a 2014 music compilation album {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honourable Woman
''The Honourable Woman'' is a 2014 British political spy thriller television miniseries in eight parts, directed and written by Hugo Blick for the BBC and SundanceTV. Featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal in the title role, it aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 3 July 2014 and premiered on SundanceTV in the United States on 31 July 2014. An advance screening of the series was held on 7 April 2014 at the MIPTV Media Market. ''The Honourable Woman'' received positive reviews, with Gyllenhaal winning a Golden Globe Award for her performance, Stephen Rea winning the 2015 British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor and the series was awarded a Peabody Award in 2015. Synopsis Eight years after taking over the family company from her brother Ephra Stein, Anglo-Jewish businesswoman Nessa Stein is made a life peer for her continued commitment to the Middle East peace process. She becomes '' The Rt Hon. Baroness Stein of Tilbury''. When her new business partner die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors (TV Series)
''Ambassadors'' is a three-episode British comedy-drama television Miniseries#United Kingdom, serial that ran on BBC Two in 2013. ''Ambassadors'' follows the lives of the employees of the British embassy in the fictional Central Asian nation oTazbekistan Cast ;Britons * David Mitchell (comedian), David Mitchell as Keith Davis, the British Ambassador to Tazbekistan * Robert Webb as Neil Tilly, the Deputy Head of Mission * Keeley Hawes as Jennifer, the Ambassador's wife and a physician * Matthew Macfadyen as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Foreign Office official (known as POD, for "Prince of Darkness") * Susan Lynch as Caitlin, the Head of Consular Affairs * Amara Karan as Isabel, the Trade and Political Secretary * Michael Smiley as Mr. Jackson (also known as "Mister 21"), a Foreign Office interrogation specialist * Henry Lloyd-Hughes as Simon Broughton, a human rights activist * Elliot Cowan as Stephen Pembridge, a solo performance actor * Tom Hollander as Prince Mark, a mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinbad (TV Series)
''Sinbad'' is an action-adventure fantasy family saga television series that aired on Sky1 from 8 July to 23 September 2012. It was produced by Impossible Pictures, the same company who made ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' and '' Primeval''. The series stars Elliot Knight as the eponymous hero Sinbad. On 27 February 2013, Sky announced that they had axed the show, saying its "story has now been told". Premise Sinbad accidentally kills the son of the powerful Lord Akbari in a fist fight. As recompense for the blood debt, Sinbad's brother is killed in front of his eyes. Sinbad escapes, but his grandmother uses a magic talisman to curse him for the death of his brother. The curse prevents Sinbad from staying on land for more than one day; if he tarries the talisman will choke him to death. This prohibition against remaining on land leads to a life of adventure at sea that holds many wonders. Sinbad is unaware that he is still being hunted by Lord Akbari, who does not consider Sinbad' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grass Crown (film)
The Grass Crown () or Blockade Crown (''corona obsidionalis'') was the highest and rarest of all military decorations in the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It was presented only to a general, commander, or officer whose actions saved a legion or the entire army. One example of actions leading to awarding of a grass crown would be a general who broke the blockade around a beleaguered Roman army. The crown took the form of a chaplet made from plant materials taken from the battlefield, including grasses, flowers, and various cereals such as wheat; it was presented to the general by the army he had saved. History Pliny wrote about the grass crown at some length in his ''Natural History'' (''Naturalis Historia''): Pliny also lists the persons who by their deeds won the grass crown: * Lucius Siccius Dentatus *Publius Decius Mus (received two grass crowns—one from his own army, and another from the surrounded troops he had rescued) *Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Europe
''Dead Europe'' is a 2012 Australian drama film directed by Tony Krawitz. It is an adaptation of the 2005 novel by Christos Tsiolkas of the same name. The film has received mixed reviews. Cast * Ewen Leslie as Isaac * Marton Csokas as Nico * Kodi Smit-McPhee as Josef * Jean-François Balmer as Gerry * Yigal Naor as Syd * William Zappa as Vassily * Françoise Lebrun as Leah * Thanos Samaras as Andreas * Danae Skiadi as Giulia * Coral Amiga as Yvette * Giannis Antetokounmpo as Neighbour's Son * Christian Manon as Voice Reception ''Dead Europe'' received mixed to positive reviews, earning a 63% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Julie Rigg of ''ABC Online'' gave a positive review and called it "one of the most disturbing, and intelligent, Australian films for a long time." Tim Robey of ''The Daily Telegraph'' also gave a positive review, calling the movie a "promising drama of alienation that slides into portentousness." Joel Walsh of '' Little White Lies'' however gave a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
