Rivka Michaeli
Acting
Biography
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Born: April 14, 1938
Known For
Roads and Oranges
Two sisters have lost their father during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. When they learn that there are chances he might be still alive, they travel to Turkey to search for him.
King for a Day
A hotel porter, who a long time ago divorced his wife and his daughter with her in America, is alarmed when a beautiful girl arrives at his hotel looking for her supposedly rich father. The porter had been sending back money and describing himself as a well-to-do businessman. With the help of his hotel friends, he becomes the guest of honor and takes her on a tour of Israel, all the time trying to avoid revealing his true work.
Salomonico
The story of Salomonico who works in the Tel Aviv Port and tries to defend his house and his life.
Guttman X 5
Five short movies, linked by an animation, inspired by the life and work of Amos Guttman, the director from Transylvania who was a pioneer in Israeli gay cinema and died from AIDS in 1993. Produced by Tel Aviv Film Festival, it is a mixture of different styles and genres and is directed by six film-makers. In the last moving episode Kati Guttman celebrates his son, who passed away twenty years ago, and also recalls for the first time his own deportation to the Nazi death camps.
Dr. Pomerantz
Doctor Yoel Pomerantz is a washed-up, self-loathing psychologist who lives on the 12th floor of a high-rise with his Aspberger's son, Yoav, who spends his days pretending to be a traffic cop and proudly giving out parking tickets. Dr. Pomerantz sees a few patients a week, barely enough to keep he and Yoav in ramen noodles and with a roof over their heads. In addition, he works shifts at a suicide hotline. When he gets desperate financially, he recruits hotline callers to see him privately, which is discovered and results in his getting unceremoniously fired.
Beautiful Troubles
Armand is a part-time hairdresser, on the run from women who are exhausted of his womanizing habits; Ofra has just escaped marriage to an inarticulate bridegroom. They encounter one another at a rooming house, and by helping each other escape their untenable situations, Armand and Ofra grow closer, resulting in a whole new set of troubles in this madcap comedy from Israel.
Magic Samson
A comedy about a postal worker Samson who suddenly discovered his talent for basketball.
Sunstroke
A movie about a last summer in the life of four friends just before they go to the army during early 1980's Tel-Aviv summer before the war in Lebanon.
Big Bad Wolves
The twisted paths of three very different men brutally collide due to a chain of unspeakable murders: a grieving father who has been doomed to seek vengeance and a police detective who boldly crosses the narrow boundary between law and crime meet a religion teacher suspected of being the murderer.
Foul Gesture
This is a story about a really troubled man who is out of work, his marriage is falling apart, overbearing mother doesn't let him to live, his father recently died, etc...
Filmography
as Regina
as Herself
as Self
as Berta Posnansky
as Lili katz
as Hana Weiss
as herself
as La mère de Norbert
as Tzipi
as Malka (voice)
as רבקה צימר
as Mrs. Meizlish
as Mina Klienhouse
as Haya
as Bracha Alkalai
as Self - Actress
as Katerina
as Thomas' Mother
as Elsa Schneider
as Mrs. Shtarkman