Sasson Gabai
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sasson Gabai (also Sasson Gabay) - is an Israeli actor, Jewish and originally from Iraq. He works in Israeli cinema. He has won Award of the Israeli Film Academy, Asia Pacific Screen Award, European Film Awards and Jerusalem Film Festival in 2007 as Best Actor in a highly acclaimed Israeli film "The Band's Visit". He is leading and prolific actors in Israel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sasson Gabai , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: November 24, 1947
Place of Birth: Baghdad, Iraq
Known For
Stockholm
The black comedy starts with the death of Avishai Sar-Shalom, a renowned economist and leading Nobel prize candidate. His body is found by his four close old friends, and moments before calling an ambulance, one of them brings up with an idea. Only a few days separate between an economy professor that would be forgotten and a Nobel Prize winner.
Zehu Ze
Plots of the episodes revolved around different subjects related to life in Israel, fashions like Folk dancing, tributes to classics like Charlie Chaplin movies, or contemporary series like The Simpsons and Dallas.
Bliss
Sassi is more than 20 years older than his wife Effi and is worried about his declining powers. Surgery has left him seeking treatment for impotence, but Effi insists she’s content with their emotional closeness. In her work as a physical therapist, though, Effi sees the link between body and heart every day. The biggest challenge to their loving relationship has been the gambling debts Sassi’s adult son keeps running up. But the couple’s fragile understanding, compounded by the presence of two young men, introduces new threats. Their teenage grandson, Omri, returns from living with his father in Europe, at loose ends and clearly in need of guidance. For one thing, he can barely stand to wear a shirt. Then a young patient turns up at the swimming pool where Effi conducts therapy sessions. He comes to confront her about something from their past, something complicated, contested, and painful to them both.
Shtisel
Akiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony overlooking streets of the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem. A year has passed since the mother died. All the other children have left the nest, and only Shulam and Akiva remain - quarreling, making up, and laughing about themselves and the rest of the world. All will change when Akiva meets Elisheva.
The Quarry
Israel, Fifties... Two men are fighting for the love of one woman in the quarry.
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
Kugel
Nukhem is a merchant, selling jewelry, Libbie is a teacher and an aspiring writer.
Betulot
Sirens is a thriller set in Eilat. It revolves around Shelley Toledano, 32, a policewoman with the Illegal Aliens unit, which is mostly devoted to documenting and following refugees from Africa who infiltrate the city through its border with Egypt. Shelley is rugged and outspoken, and used to the difficult sights that come with the job. But one day, when the body of the person closest to her is found, her life is turned upside down.
WeCrashed
Inspired by actual events—and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its valuation dropped $40 billion. What happened?
The Band's Visit
A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.
Filmography
as Tewfiq
as Nukhem Shtisel
as קריאון
as Shimon
as Meir
as Doron Neumann
as Shimon Peres
as Hichem
as Shlomo Abadi
as Amos Barazani
as Anwar Sadat
as Uzi Reguan
as Simeon Amsalem
as Eliyahu
as Nukhem Shtisel
as Jafaar
as Yaakov Fidelman
as Rubi Polishuk
as Le Chef de la Police
as Ahmed Al Bakr
as Tewfiq Zakaria
as Oded Zar
as Guide-Dogs Trainer
as Perach
as Yuri
as Minister Oman
as Suliman Nasir Rasi
as Israel (Rudolf/Reszo) Kastner
as Cop 1 Israel
as Khalil
as Hamid
as Marwan Khreesat
as Moshe David
as Kamel Djern
as Mousa
as General Haled
as Bossam
as מתבודד תמהוני
as Arab Student