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Joy Rieger
Joy Rieger (; born 3 March 1994) is an Israeli actress. She is a winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best Actress in international film, and of the Israeli Television Academy Award. Early life Rieger was born in Herzliya to parents who immigrated from Belgium. Her father is Ilan Steve Rieger, and her mother is Evelyn Scheiner-Rieger. In her youth, she studied at the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts, majoring in theater, from which she graduated in 2012. She did her military service as a video editor in Unit 8200 of the Intelligence Corps. Career Rieger started her acting career as a child in several children plays (the musicals ''The Jungle Book (musical), The Jungle Book'' and ''The Sound of Music'') and in children's roles is TV and films. From 2012 to 2016, she played a central role for three seasons in the Israeli Nickelodeon youth series ''The Greenhouse (TV series), The Greenhouse'', where she played Dina Navon, a young delinquent who arrives at a hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herzliya
Herzliya ( ; , / ) is an affluent List of Israeli cities, city in the Israeli coastal plain, central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture. In it had a population of . Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of . Its western, beachfront area is called Herzliya Pituah and is one of Israel's most affluent neighborhoods and home to numerous embassies, ambassadors' residences, companies headquarters, and houses of prominent Israeli business people. History Herzliya, named after Theodor Herzl, was founded in 1924 as a semi-cooperative farming community (moshava) with a mixed population of new immigrants and veteran residents. During that year, 101 houses and 35 cowsheds were built there, and the village continued to grow. The 1931 census of Palestine, 1931 census recorded a population of 1,217 inhabitants, in 306 houses.Mills, 1932, p13/ref> Israeli Declarati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patchwork (2021 Film)
''Patchwork'' is a 2021 drama film directed by Petros Charalambous and co-directed by Janine Teerling, who also wrote the film's screenplay. The film stars Angeliki Papoulia as Chara, a woman struggling with the pressures imposed by motherhood. ''Patchwork'' was produced by AMP Filmworks, a Cypriot production company, in collaboration with the Israeli company Transfax Film Productions and the Slovenian production company Perfo Production. Premise Chara (Papoulia) struggles with anxiety as she and her husband Andreas (Tselepos) raise their six-year-old daughter, Sophia. Much of the distress stems from Chara's own childhood, as she is reluctant for her mother to meet Sophia. Meanwhile, at her work at an architecture firm, Chara's friendship with human resources manager Christie (Fyrogeni) is strained by the latter's seemingly happy child free lifestyle. Chara is forced to address the causes of her pain when she strikes up a friendly relationship with Melina (Rieger) the teenage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TLVFest
TLVFest, officially the Tel Aviv International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (), is an annual film festival held in Tel Aviv, Israel. The festival is focused on LGBTQ-themed film from around the world. The festival, based at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. is open to all types of audiences, not only to members of the LGBTQ community. The festival also spotlights LGBTQ Palestinian films, consults LGBTQ Palestinians in its film selection process, and is outspoken in its commitment to Palestinian human rights. The festival is increasingly active outside Tel Aviv, and bringing LGBTQ culture across the country to cities and towns such as Sderot, Beersheba, Haifa, Jerusalem, Kibbutz Mizra, Rosh Pina, Ness Ziona, and Pardes Hanna-Karkur, The festival runs around the same time as, sometimes concurrently, with Tel Aviv Pride. History TLVFest was founded by Yair Hochner. The first-ever LGBT film festival in Tel Aviv was held in 2006, and focused on LGBT-themed films that would otherwise never have r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gesher Theater
Gesher Theater is an Israeli theater company founded in 1991 in Tel Aviv by new Olim from the Soviet Union. Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy, by Natan Sharansky, 2008, pp 139ff. It performs both in Russian and Hebrew. History Gesher Theatre was founded in Israel in 1991 with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Jewish Agency, the City of Tel Aviv-Yafo, The Tel Aviv Development Foundation and the Zionist Forum. Gesher Theatre consists mostly of new immigrants from Russia, and is now regarded as an inseparable part of Israeli culture. Yevgeny Arye, Gesher Theatre's Founder and Artistic Director to this very day, was a reputable and successful stage and screen director in Moscow, laureate of many prizes in Russia and elsewhere. Gesher Theater is one of the only bi-lingual theaters in the world, performing with the same troupe in Russian and in Hebrew alternately. Nowadays most of the productions are staged in Hebrew. The un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seagull
''The Seagull'' () is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 in literature, 1895 and first produced in 1896 in literature#Drama, 1896. ''The Seagull'' is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the Russian symbolism, symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev. Like Chekhov's other full-length plays, ''The Seagull'' relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully-developed characters. In contrast to the melodrama of mainstream Nineteenth-century theatre, 19th-century theatre, lurid actions (such as Konstantin's suicide attempts) are not shown onstage. Characters tend to speak in subtext rather than directly. The character Trigorin is considered one of Chekhov's greatest male roles. The opening night of the first production was a famous failure. Vera Komiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
God Of Vengeance
''God of Vengeance'' (Yiddish: גאָט פֿון נעקאָמע, ''Got fun nekome'') is a 1906 play by Sholem Asch. It is about a Jewish brothel owner who attempts to become respectable by commissioning a Torah Scroll and marrying off his daughter to a yeshiva student. Set in a brothel, the play explores themes of religious hypocrisy and morality. The play is notable for its progressive portrayal of a lesbian relationship, which was the first lesbian kiss on an American stage. I. L. Peretz famously said of the play after reading it: "Burn it, Asch, burn it!" Instead, Asch went to Berlin and pitched it to director Max Reinhardt and actor Rudolph Schildkraut, who produced it at the Deutsches Theater. Production Asch wrote ''God of Vengeance'' in the winter of 1906 in Cologne, Germany. The play was first brought to New York City, United States by David Kessler in 1907. ''God of Vengeance'' was published in English-language translation in 1918. In 1922, it was staged in New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crucible
''The Crucible'' is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. Miller was later questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on January 22, 1953, starring E. G. Marshall, Beatrice Straight and Madeleine Sherwood. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold, and the reviews for it were largely hostile (although ''The New York Times'' noted "a powerful play n adriving performance"). The production won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. A year lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameri Theatre
The Cameri Theatre (, ''HaTeatron HaKameri''), established in 1944 in Tel Aviv, is one of the leading theatres in Israel, and is housed at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center. History The Cameri Theatre was founded with the purpose of promoting local theatre, in contrast to Habima Theatre, which had roots in Russian theatre. The Cameri presented works about the daily life of persons in the fledgling state of Israel. The Cameri is the theatre where the Israeli nationalist play '' He Walked Through the Fields'' premiered just two weeks after the state of Israel was formally established in May 1948. ''He Walked Through the Fields'', written by Moshe Shamir, was later adapted to film starring Moshe Dayan's youngest son Assi Dayan. The Cameri, Tel Aviv's municipal theatre, stages up to ten new productions a year, in addition to its repertoire from previous years. The theatre has 34,000 subscribers and attracts 900,000 spectators annually. In 2003, the Cameri moved into the Tel Aviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pillars Of Society
''The Pillars of Society'' (or "Pillars of the Community"; original Norwegian title: ''Samfundets støtter'') is an 1877 play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen had great trouble with the writing of this play. The ending is the most criticized feature, since Bernick is clearly guilty of attempted murder but gets off unscathed, but successfully illustrates that the rich and powerful are often selfish and corrupt. Ibsen first planned a contemporary drama at the end of 1869 but did not begin writing until October 1875 (in Munich), completing it in the summer of 1877. It was first published on 11 October of that year in Copenhagen, with the first stagings following on 14 November at the Odense Teater and on 18 November at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. The first performance in Norway was at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beit Lessin Theater
Beit Lessin Theater (, translit: ''Teatron Bet Lessin'') is a theater in Tel Aviv, Israel. History The theater was established in 1980 by Yaakov Agmon for the Histadrut. Over the years the theater has shown over a thousand contemporary American and European plays, as well as original productions. In 1993, started managing the theater. It was separated from the Histadrut and started showing mostly original Israeli material reflecting the political and social situation in Israel. In 2003, the theater moved from Lessin House to the old residence of the Cameri Theater after it was remodeled. This venue having more seats allowed larger and more expensive plays to be produced, such as ''Chicago'' and ''Guys and Dolls ''Guys and Dolls'' is a musical theater, musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Run ...''. The theater's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Zero
''June Zero'' is a 2022 American-Israeli drama film co-written and directed by Jake Paltrow. It is about the trial of Adolf Eichmann. It premiered at the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It was given a limited release in the United States on 28 June 2024. Plot Reception Matt Zoller Seitz of ''RogerEbert.com'' gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, "There's no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel's founding. But it's rare to see the two subjects intertwined so purposely as in ''June Zero''. The idea to fold it all into an anthology of interconnected short films might be unique." Greg Nussen of ''Slant Magazine ''Slant Magazine'' is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New Yor ...'' also gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, "''June Zero'' is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live And Become
''Live and Become'' () is a 2005 French drama film about an Ethiopian Christian boy who disguises himself as an Ethiopian Jew to escape famine and emigrates to Israel. It was directed by Romanian-born Radu Mihăileanu. It won awards at the Berlin and Vancouver film festivals among others. Plot Schlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother, is about to be airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984. His birth mother, who hopes for a better life for him, tells him "Go, live, and become," as he leaves her to get on the bus. The film tells of his growing up in Israel and how he deals with the secrets he carries: not being Jewish and having left his birth mother. Cast *Moshe Agazai as Child Schlomo *Moshe Abebe as Teenage Schlomo * Sirak M. Sabahat as Adult Schlomo * Yael Abecassis as Yael Harrari *Roschdy Zem Roschdy Zem (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
