Assi DayanFilmography

In Treatment

Actors: Assi Dayan

Synopsis: A psychiatrist wrestles with his own problems as well as those of his patients in this feature-film adaptation of the popular Israeli television series Be Tipul (aka In Treatment). Re'uven Dagan (Assi Dayan) is a shabby, middle-aged analyst who spends his days listening to the concerns and Read More

Wild Dogs

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ayelet Zurer, Lior Ashkenazi, Alon Abutbul, Neta Garty, Igal Adika

Synopsis: An upstanding lawyer discovers where his loyalties truly lie while embarking on a personal crusade of vengeance and struggling with his own integrity. Israel, 2006: young lawyer Uri wrestles with his own morality after being asked by his best friend to lie in court. His friend has been accused of Read More

Comrade

Actors: Tinkerbell, Assi Dayan, Adam Hirsch, Shraga Harpaz, Eyal Rozales

Out of Sight

Actors: Tali Sharon, Assi Dayan, Sandra Sade, Michael Aloni

Time of Favor

Actors: Aki Avni, Assi Dayan, Micha Selektar

Synopsis: Issues of love, loyalty, and faith are set on a collision course in this award-winning drama. Rabbi Meltzer (Asi Dayan) is a respected Orthodox rabbi and leader of a yeshiva school in a remote section of the Judean hills. One of the Rabbi's favorite causes is returning Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock Read More

Zimzum

Actors: Tinkerbell, Assi Dayan, Rivka Michaeli, Yair Rubin

Synopsis: Uriel (Assi Dayan of Time of Favor, son of former Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan) is a former general in the Israeli army. He's split with his wife, and takes his mistress, Mona (Tinkerbell, also from Time of Favor), nearly half his age, for a weekend in the country with his old friends Read More

Return From India

Synopsis: Directed by Menahem Golan, Return From India centers inside of a chaotic Tel-Aviv hospital, where administrator Lazar (Assi Dayan) requests that a young surgeon named Dr. Rubin (Aki Avni) accompany him and his wife on a trip to India in hopes of rescuing his daughter, who had originally left for Read More

Devarim

Synopsis: This Israeli drama is based on Yaakov Shabtai's novel Past Continuous and tells the story of three men living in Tel Aviv. Caesar loves his wife and son; he is devastated that they have separated. Now he leads a miserable life in a run-down apartment shared with the sluggardly Israel, a dead-beat Read More

Mr. Baum

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Assi Dayan, Rivka Neiman, Shira Geffen, Natan Zahavi

Synopsis: This is the final installment of the comic trilogy about contemporary Israeli life that begins with Life According to Agfa. Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum (Assi Dayan, who also directed) spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But Read More

Ein Shemot Al Hadlotot

Synopsis: In recent years, the desire to make money has begun to overshadow the more humanistic idealism behind Israeli kibbutzim (collective farms or settlements in which residents shared everything from the raising and processing of crops to child rearing). At least that is what writer/screenwriter Nadav Levitan Read More

Electric Blanket

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Shmil Ben Ari, Yehuda Elboim, Rivka Neuman

Synopsis: This Israeli black comedy is the second entry in Assi Dayan's trilogy that began with Life According to Agfa (1993). The story centers around the lives of three down and out people who played bit parts in the first film. They are Malka, an aging whore who dreams of being a singer, Levy, her Read More

Life According to Agfa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gila Almagor, Shuli Rand

Synopsis: In general, one could say that Tel Aviv is where worldly Israelis go to play, and Jerusalem is where religious ones go to pray. In this tragic drama, the characters are all denizens of Tel Aviv's nightlife, and the action centers around an all-night bar owned by two women with difficult romantic Read More

The Battle for the Chairmanship

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Shayke Levy, Israel Poliakoff, Tamar Gingold, Shyula Khen

Synopsis: The plot to this comedy is primarily a framework for the jokes and routines of the stars, three popular and well-loved Israeli comics. Shayke Levy, Israel Poliakoff, and Gavri Banai are an irreverent trio known for taking on political and social matters, human foibles and current topics in the Read More

Banoth

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anath Topol, Caroline Langford, Heli Goldenberg

Synopsis: For viewers who believe in the saving grace of military life, this routine film about seven women who join the Israeli army will be especially meaningful -- for viewers who don't, it won't. The seven women are all different, ranging from one who narrowly escapes a life of drug addiction, to Read More

Beyond the Walls

Actors: Arnon Zadok, Muhammad Bakri, Assi Dayan, Rami Danon

Synopsis: Set in an Israeli maximum security prison, Beyond the Walls (Meachori Hasoragim) focusses on an ethnic "war" between rival prisoners. The opposing factions are headed by Israeli Arnon Zadok and Arab Muhamad Bakri. Insults beget violence, and before long the entire prison threatens to erupt in an Read More

Tell Me That You Love Me

Synopsis: This melodrama chronicles a couple's attempt to deal with a failing marriage in the '80s. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Bekhinath Bagruth

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dan Toren, Ariela Rabinovitz, Ronnie Pinkovitz, Maya Kadishman

Synopsis: This fictional treatment of society in an Israeli high school examines young teens who may or may not be prepared to tackle the sexual challenges they now face. In one story, a 17-year old couple have been dating for some time, and when they make a dreaded visit to a gynecologist to find out if Read More

The Hit

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy from the celebrated Hagashash trio, a former dance teacher assumes the role of cupid by scouring the daily obituaries and a young gas-station attendee longs to make a name for himself as a rock star. In addition to featuring music by the legendary Ofra Haza, The Hit is also Read More

The Uranium Conspiracy

Actors: Siegfried Rauch, Oded Kotler, Gianni Rizzo, Rolf Eden, Herbert Fux

Synopsis: This espionage thriller is set in some of Europe's most scenic locales and follows the exploits of an agent and soldier-of-fortune who must stop enemy agents from stealing a shipment of uranium. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Operation Thunderbolt

Actors: Yehoram Gaon, Ori Levy, Arik Lavi, Klaus Kinski, Sybil Danning

Synopsis: This thrill-packed fact-based action-adventure from Israel chronicles the daring rescue of 104 passengers from a hijacked plane in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. The film is also known as Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lovely Troubles

Crew: Director

Actors: Ze'ev Revach

Hill Halfon Doesn't Answer

Crew: Director

Actors: Gavri Banai, Shaike Levi, Yisrael Poliakov

Synopsis: The military comedy Hill "Halfon" Doesn't Answer begins with Gingi (Gavri) on a mission to find an AWOL soldier named Sergio (Poli). Gingi intended to go propose to his girlfriend, but he has no idea that she has run away from home. Her father Victor (Shaika) also wants to confront Sergio. Soon Read More

La Promesse de L'Aube

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Didier Haudepin, Assi Dayan, Francois Raffoul, Fernand Gravey

Synopsis: Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother -- the boy's father is a famous actor who wants nothing to do with either Nina or her child. She joins an acting troupe where she impersonates a famous French fashion Read More

Hou Halach Ba'sadot

Actors: Assi Dayan, Chana Eden

Synopsis: This emotional, patriotic drama is taken from a well-known Israeli novel and stage production by author Moshe Shamir. Young men and women pray for peace but prepare for war amidst the political and military instability that has plagued the Middle East for centuries. The heroic struggles of Read More