TopolFilmography

War & Remembrance: The Final Chapter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick, Sami Frey, Topol

War & Remembrance

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Michael Jeffrey Woods, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick

Queenie

Actors: Mia Sara, Kirk Douglas, Martin Balsam, Claire Bloom, Topol

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Queenie was adapted from the roman a clef by Michael Korda. This is the story of Queenie Kelly,an English girl (Mia Sara) from the slums of Calcutta who is kept from full knowledge of her Indian heritage by her protective mother (Jean Simmons). As a means of bettering Read More

Roman Behemshechim

Actors: Topol, Galia Topol, Efrat Lavie, Anath Topol

Synopsis: In this conventional tale of middle-age angst, Effi Avidar (Chaim Topol) is having second thoughts about his marriage after he has a close brush with heart problems. Rejecting his poetess-wife, he looks back at his previous marriage and feels the dreams he had then are worth salvaging as he makes Read More

Winds of War, Part 7: Into the Maelstorm

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman, Polly Bergen

Synopsis: In the final episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, Ambassador-at-large "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) represents the US in a series of conferences with the intansigent Russian premier Josef Stalin (Anatoly Chauginian). Dallying briefly with his erstwhile British Read More

Winds of War, Part 2: The Storm Breaks

Synopsis: In the second episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, several of the characters introduced in part one are swept up in the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland. Among these are Byron Henry (Jan-Michael Vincent), Natalie Jastrow (Ali McGraw) and Leslie Slote (David Dukes), who Read More

The Winds of War

Synopsis: This World War II epic drama, based on the book by Herman Wouk, follows the life and trials of a career naval officer (Robert Mitchum) sent to Germany during Hitler's rise to power, who witnesses the gradual escalation of the war. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

For Your Eyes Only

Actors: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Julian Glover

Synopsis: For Your Eyes Only eschews the gimmickry and campiness of earlier James Bond films, concentrating instead on telling the story and maintaining suspense. Roger Moore is back as Secret Agent 007, this time on the trail of Soviet spies while he romances the beautiful Melina, played by Carole Bouquet. Richard Maibaum Read More

Flash Gordon

Actors: Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, intentionally campy adaptation of the famous sci-fi comic strip. The story is as basic as space operas get: Ming (Max von Sydow) has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash (Sam J. Jones) Read More

The House on Garibaldi Street

Actors: Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-TV spy movie chronicles the 1960 capture of a Nazi in South America. When Israeli agents find out that Nazi Adolph Eichmann survived the war and is living in Argentina, they hatch a plan to kidnap him and bring him to trial for his crimes. Martin Balsam Read More

Galileo

Actors: Topol, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Clive Revill

Synopsis: Filmed in England, Galileo is based on Charles Laughton's 1947 adaptation of the play by Bertolt Brecht, which, like this 1975 film, was directed by Joseph Losey. Israeli film-star Topol plays the 17th century Italian astronomer, whose theories run contrary to the edicts of the Catholic Church. Read More

The Going Up of David Lev

Actors: Brandon Cruz, Melvyn Douglas, Topol

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, The Going Up of David Lev is a dramatized salute to the 25th anniversary of the state of Israel. Courtship of Eddie's Father star Brandon Cruz portrays a young Jewish boy searching for the truth behind the death of his father. He is aided in his quest Read More

The Public Eye

Synopsis: This English comedy is based on a short play by Peter Shaffer (better known for Equus). Belinda is a free-spirited American woman married to a stuffy English rolled-umbrella man. When he leaves for work each day, she leaves their London apartment too. She says she's just sightseeing, but he Read More

Fiddler on the Roof

Actors: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann

Synopsis: Norman Jewison's adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is set in the Ukranian ghetto village of Anatevka (the film was actually lensed in Yugoslavia). Israeli actor Topol repeats his London stage role as Tevye the milkman, whose equilibrium is constantly being challenged by his poverty Read More

Hatarnegol

Actors: Topol

Synopsis: Topol, or more correctly, Chaim Topol, Israel's best known international film star, leads in this sex comedy. Gadi (Topol), a sergeant in the Israeli reserves, is on active duty but is given leave to return to Haifa to divorce his wife. For reasons best known to the filmmakers, Gadi (who is not Read More

A Talent for Loving

Synopsis: Richard Widmark stars as a professional gambler who finds himself financially embarrassed. To bail himself out, Widmark marries into a wealthy Mexican household. What he doesn't know is that the family is cursed: its female members are compelled to love their men literally to death. Chaim Topol Read More

Before Winter Comes

Actors: David Niven, Topol, Anna Karina, John Hurt, Anthony Quayle

Synopsis: In this bitter drama that takes place in the immediate aftermath of World War II, British Major Giles Burnside (David Niven) is assigned to a Austrian refugee camp, his orders to send the masses of displaced civilians to either the Russian or the American zone. Burnside is a by-the-books commander Read More

Every Bastard a King

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, William Berger, Oded Kotler, Yehoram Gaon, Ori Levy

Synopsis: This Israeli-made feature was originally titled Kol Mamzer Melech. Dramatizing an actual event that occurred during the Six-Day War of 1967, the film top-bills Italian actress Pier Angeli, but the central character is a pilot named Ralphi Cohen (played by Oded Kotler). Hoping to bring peace to his Read More

Ervinka

Actors: Topol, Gila Almagor, Shraga Friedman, Yossi Banai

Synopsis: Erbinka (Haym Topol) is an Israeli drifter who dreams of winning the national lottery in this offbeat comedy. When he fails to win the coveted prize, he robs the lottery office by posing as a director making a film. Erbinka even recruits the police to help him in his efforts, completely fooling Read More

Cast a Giant Shadow

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner

Synopsis: Cast a Giant Shadow is a big-budget, glossy action/adventure story set at the time that Israel became a nation. American Army officer Colonel David Marcus is recruited by the yet-to-exist Israel to help form an army. Marcus is conflicted because of his sudden appreciation for his Jewish heritage. Read More

El Dorado

Actors: Gila Almagor, Topol, Shimon Finkel, Ori Levy, Shai Ophir

Synopsis: When a man is framed for a crime he didn't commit, his socially intimidated lawyer is reluctant to take the case. The barrister finally agrees, but does nothing to help in his defense. Political pressure is exerted to find the man guilty, and the guilty man is blackmailed into really committing a Read More

Sallah

Actors: Topol, Gila Almagor, Arik Einstein, Geula Nuni, Shraga Friedman

Synopsis: Israeli stage and film favorite Topol tops the cast of Sallah. Topol plays a Jewish refugee who moves his family to Israel shortly after the official establishment of that "promised land." Unlike his hard-working new neighbors, Topol is shiftless and lazy, forever finding the easiest, most Read More

The True Story of Palestine

Synopsis: Nathan Axelrod, Uri Zohar, and Yoel Zilberg re-edit newsreel footage originally shot by Carmel Films to create a satirical look at the early years of the Jewish state. Even before Israel was granted statehood, it had established it's first film studio. Throughout the 1920s and 30s, Jewish Read More

I Like Mike

Actors: Gideon Singer, Ze'ev Berlinsky

Synopsis: This uneven romantic drama directed by Peter Frye, is about the son of a millionaire Jewish family living in Texas who travels to Israel. On his way to the hotel in Tel Aviv after landing at the airport, the son Mike (Seymour Gitin) gets invited to spend some time with the cab driver's family. Read More