1974 Israel CULT FILM POSTER Bourekas KAZABLAN Movie YEHORAM GAON Menahem GOLAN

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1974 Israel CULT FILM POSTER Bourekas KAZABLAN Movie YEHORAM GAON Menahem GOLAN:
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Up for sale is the vintage ORIGINAL ISRAELI Designed , Published and Distributed THEATRE POSTER for the FIRST - PREMIERE release in 1974 of the world fame ISRAELI musical CULT FILM ( Also sometimes mistakenly decribed as a BOUREKAS FILM ) - \"KAZABLAN \". Starring the Israeli acclaimed legendary singer and actor YEHORAM GAON and many others, Directed by the legendary Israeli producer and director MENAHEM GOLAN , Named by critics as a kind of Israeli \"West Side Story\" , And has earned two 1974 Golden Globe nominations as the Best Foreign Language Film and for Best Song. Richly photographed and illustrated. Originaly published by the Israeli distributers. A LARGE poster. Size around 40\" x 28\" . Good condition. Folded twice.A few creases. Minor almost invisible stains. Should bevery attractive framed behind glass ( Please watch the scan for a reliable AS IS image ) . Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.
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Yehoram Gaon (Hebrew: יהורם גאון) (informally, Yoram Gaon) (born December 28, 1939) is a Jewish Israeli singer, actor, director, producer, TV and radio host, and public figure. He has also written and edited books on Israeli culture.[1] The son of Sephardic Jewish parents—a Macedonian father and Turkish mother, both immigrants to Israel—he became an early inspiration of \"solidarity and pride\" for the Sephardic community.[2]Early lifeGaon was born in the Beit Hakerem section of Jerusalem in 1939.[1] His father, Moshe-David Gaon, a well-known historian, was born in Sarajevo in 1889, and immigrated to British mandate Palestine,[3] where members of his family had lived for five generations.[4] He was a school master and Hebrew teacher in areas that included Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, and İzmir.[3] He was also a poet and a scholar of Ladino.[4] In Turkey, he met and married Sara Hakim,[citation needed] returning with her to Jerusalem.Yehoram enlisted in the IDF in 1957.[citation needed] In the military, he joined the Nahal entertainment troupe, beginning a career in the performing arts that would eventually bring him fame as both a singer and actor.[5]FamilyGaon has two children from his former marriage to Orna Goldfarb: Moshe-David (named after his father) and Hila.[citation needed] His three brothers are Yigal, Kalila Armon, and late businessman and industrialist Benjamin \"Benny\" Gaon.[4]Professional career Singer After performing in the Nahal Brigade entertainment troupe during his army time, Gaon joined the \"Yarkon Bridge Trio\" (Hebrew: שלישיית גשר הירקון‎),[6] performing with two other performers who also became stars in Israeli popular culture: Arik Einstein and the late Beni Amdursky.[citation needed]. He was in the original singing group \"HaTarnegolim\" (\"The Chickens\"), founded in 1960 by Naomi Polani.[7][8][9] Gaon\'s growing reputation soon attracted the attention of leading Israeli composers and song writers.[citation needed] He became well known for his rendition of Naomi Shemer\'s Od Lo Ahavti Dai (lit. I have not Loved Enough Yet).[10] He performed at the Nobel Prize ceremony of Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat in Oslo, in 1994.[1] In 2009, Gaon recorded the song \"Shir Ha’avoda Vehamlacha\" for the organization Pioneers For A Cure, with the proceeds benefiting The Israel Cancer Association (ICA).[11] Actor Gaon appeared with the Israel Cameri Theatre in productions that included \"Chips with Everything\", \"Vitzek,\" and \"Kinneret Kinneret,\" by the National Laureate, Nathan Alterman.[12] He left Israel in the early 1960s to study acting at the famous Herbert Berghof Studio in New York, under well-known acting teacher Uta Hagen, later graduating with honors from the RCA Institute for TV Production.[12] He returned to Israel to play the starring role in the 1966 stage production of the original Israeli musical comedy Kazablan, which became an immediate hit, and ran for more than 600 performances.[12] The musical\'s huge success made this \"young Jerusalem-born singer...not only...an overnight singing star, but also a figure of solidarity and pride for people of Sephardic origin, many of whom were entering a theatre for the first time.\"[2] Gaon later reprised his role in the 1974 film version.[13] Other notable film performances of his included that of Yonatan Netanyahu in the Israeli film Mivtza Yonatan (English: Operation Thunderbolt) (1977), as well as other film roles in Siege, Every Bastard a King, The Eagles Attack at Dawn, Joker, The Lover, and No-Way Street.[12] He starred in the autobiographical feature, Ani Yerushalmi (lit. I am a Jerusalemite) (1971).[14] TV and radio He starred in several other TV series, including Krovim Krovim (1983), an Israeli sitcom. He hosted his own TV show called Shishi BeGaon (\"Friday with Gaon\") on Israeli Channel One. The show was extremely popular, with a successful run for a number of years. He later hosted a weekend talk show on commercial Channel 2. Since 1997, he has been hosting a radio show on Reshet Bet called as \"Gaon on the radio\" (גאון ברדיו), in which he talks about the current weekly events and expresses his personal views on the various current weekly events.[15] Gaon moderated the Israel Broadcasting Authority documentary series for the Jubilee Year, entitled, T’kuma. In 1998 he resigned from the show, explaining in his letter of resignation that he believed that the series displayed \"overly biased pro-Arab views.\"[16] \"Gaon told the producers of the Channel 1 TV series that he could not tolerate one of the episodes, during which Arab terrorists, responsible for killing many Israelis in the 1970s, were seen to be glorified on the show.\"[16] Author and editor \"In The Middle Of The Road\" is a book written by Gaon that includes poems, family stories and photos.[1] He edited \"Spices from Spain\", a collection of Ladino quotes (with Hebrew translations) passed down to him by his father, a well-known historian. He also published a second edition of \"Eastern Jews in Israel,\" an encyclopedic work originally published by his father. [1] The complete work includes biographical information on almost 3000 rabbis, scholars and others in Spain, France, Italy, the Ottoman Empire including the Balkans, and the Middle East and North Africa who visited or immigrated to Israel, sometimes moving there to ensure they could die in the Holy Land.[3] Activist and civic leader In 1993 he was elected to the Jerusalem Municipal Council, with the portfolio for Cultural Affairs and Special Education Needs,[5] serving until 2002.[1] He is the Honorary Consul of Chile in Israel. He also serves as the president of the Arkadash association of the Turkish immigrants in Israel.[citation needed] He has also served as the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem.[16] He is active in civic affairs, serving as a member of organizations that include the Committee for the Advancement of Ladino, Yad Ben-Zvi Fund for Diaspora Research, Adopt a Soldier Fund, The Association for Soldiers Welfare, The Association for Autistic Children, The Fund for Music Therapy and The Academy For the Hebrew Language.[1] He is an advocate for peace who has spoken out on some issues, saying it is impossible to freeze growth in settlements, but on the other hand, \"I do not approve of angering the entire world. We’re not living alone [on this planet], and we depend on other countries as well.”[6] Philanthropist Among Gaon\'s many contributions to Israel\'s cultural resources include the Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino Studies at Ben Gurion University, which he and his brother Benny founded in memory of their father.[17] In December 2010, he donated books to launch the \"Sarah Hakim Gaon Library\" for Arkadash, in memory of his mother.[18] Awards In 2004, Gaon was awarded the Israel Prize, for Hebrew song.[19][20] The son of Sephardic immigrants, Yehoram Gaon grew up in Jerusalem and aspired to be an actor. During his army service he performed in the Nahal entertainment troupe, but he did not formally begin his singing career until his release from the army. He performed with several singing groups, and achieved his first major professional appearance with his leading role in the musical Kazablan. Since then, Gaon\'s career as a singer, actor, and director has flowered. He has produced almost fifty albums, including of Ladino music, has performed extensively in Israel and abroad, and has starred in television and movie productions. Among these is Operation Thunderbolt, the movie made about the 1976 rescue at Entebbe which starred Gaon as Yoni Netanyahu. He has recently compered the Israel Broadcasting Authority documentary series for the Jubilee Year, entitled, “T’kuma”. In addition to his work in performing arts, Gaon has recently entered the political arena. In 1993 he was elected to the Jerusalem City Council and has worked extensively for the city, primarily in the area of cultural and municipal arts. He has indicated that he may well be interested in pursuing a political career, but retains his interest in promoting Israel, together with its popular and folk music. Israeli superstar Yehoram Gaon celebrates a half-century in entertainment this year with a new television program. Born December 28, 1939 to a Sephardic family in Jerusalem, the internationally-renown performer is best known outside the country for his velvety voice and at least 20 albums in a variety of languages.Gaon, who began his rich career with the Nahal troupe, was once a member of ‘The Yarkon Trio’ and is an Israel Prize laureate in Hebrew Song, has also had a rich career in Israeli film and television. The entertainer has also dabbled in Israeli politics as well, and he was elected to the Jerusalem City Council in 1993, serving primarily in the area of cultural and municipal arts.In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Gaon observes that the current order to freeze Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria is not really feasible. “You cannot freeze settlements – it is impossible to freeze life,” he points out. “If a child is age three, you can’t tell him to stop growing because you want to ‘freeze’ him a few months. It was the state that also sent the settlers to live there [in those communities,],” he says. But he also notes that “on a practical level, I do not approve of angering the entire world. We’re not living alone [on this planet], and we depend on other countries as well.”His proposal for peace, surprisingly, is to try something not tried before – do nothing. “I recommend something no one has ever done – and I know that unfortunately no one will ever do it. I suggest we take a break,” he says. “For 50 years, no negotiations, and we won’t conduct discussions with committees.“During that timeout, we build ourselves. Look at how we are battered between ourselves, within our own society. If the Arabs try to attack us – fine. We already know how to protect ourselves, and we will manage.”After the “break,” says Gaon, “we’ll see how the Arabs will treat us differently. Today, everything is about “now.” Everyone is saying ‘Peace NOW.’ It’s a problematic statement. You want everything now, without waiting. You have to understand that at the moment, there is no one to talk to.“Sometimes I ask myself whether the hareidi-religious Jews aren’t right, when they argue that it was a mistake to go up to the [Temple Mount]. Maybe just as there are opinions that the Temple will come down from heaven, so too will peace also descend upon us from the sky,” he says hopefully.New TV Show: Abba’s Gaon (Daddy’s Genius) At present television is also undergoing educational reform, with a new program featuring Gaon at the top of the list – Abba’s Gaon. The title is a play on words, with the literal translation in Hebrew meaning “Daddy’s genius”; gaon means “genius” in Hebrew, and Abba means Daddy.On the program Gaon interviews children within the context of an educational but funny skit. Songs on the program are wrriten by Shlomit Cohen-Asif. The program is intended for the entire family, but aimed at children ages 7 to 11. It is broadcast on Sunday through Thursday at 2:00 p.m. on Channel 2 television, and at 3:00 p.m. on Channel 1, as well as on Educational Television Channel 23. Gaon says he hopes there will be a second season despite concerns over cutbacks and other issues that might affect that decision. “They should not close the educational channel, and \'Abba’s Gaon\' is absolutely relevant to that area,” he says, noting that the program specifically chose to stick with educational content. “There is so much concern about shallow commercialization in everything these days, but educational television at least shouldn’t have to be at the mercy of the “ratings wars.” Wisdom of the ChildrenThe performer says he also discovered while taping the program that interviewing children is quite different from working with adults. “With adults, the interviewer shows how smart he is, how much he is ‘into’ his subject. But other rules apply here,” he notes. “Children need to find the right level… they feel like you’re patronizing them, or you’re speaking to them as a teacher.” Gaon adds that when interviewing a child, it is best to “give them a sense that when you ask them a question, you are really asking because you do not know the answer. Once I was able to do that – the conversation flowed and the children opened up,” he says.The program deals with some subjects that are off the beaten track for the average children’s program, he observes. Loss and similar realities, friends, love, “these are subjects one discusses with adults but not generally on other children’s programs,” Gaon points out. “The same is true of war, or memory. These are things that grownups also cope with, and I am not convinced that grownups say anything as wise as the things the children say in their innocence.” It is not every week that two legends of the Israeli cinema come to town.Last Monday, Topol was at Town Hall in Manhattan for “Raising the Roof,” the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene’s tribute to fifty years of “Fiddler on the Roof,” honoring lyricist Sheldon Harnick. (The Jewish Standard ran a preview of this performance on May 16. The Folksbiene’s artistic director, Zalmen Mlotek, lives in Teaneck.)The 78 year-old Topol is known for his portrayal of Tevye in Norman Jewison’s 1971 film adaptation of the stage classic. On stage on Monday, Topol sang an a cappella version of “If I Were a Rich Man.” The rendition held the audience spellbound. It was absolutely brilliant.Others appearing at the wonderful gala event were many of the actors who played a variety of roles in various film and stage versions of “Fiddler.” (There also were some inevitable disappointments. The film’s director, Mr. Jewison, and Bel Kaufman, the 103-year-old granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem, who wrote the Tevye stories, were set to appear as well. But Ms. Kaufman took a fall a week before the show, and Mr. Jewison’s flight never made it out of Los Angeles. They were missed.)Three days later, at the opening of the JCC of Manhattan’s Israel Film Festival, Yehoram Gaon was honored for lifetime achievement in Israeli cinema. The renowned vocalist has acted in many Israeli movies, and he has produced musical film documentaries that have warmed the hearts of Israelis and Jews across the world these last 40 years. After being introduced by Academy-Award nominated director Joseph Cedar, the 74 year-old Mr. Gaon told the audience that the occasion truly was special. In Israel, he said, artists generally are recognized only when they are being eulogized.Mr. Gaon admitted that he initially refused Mr. Cedar’s request to take a small role in a 2004 film, “Campfire,” but was convinced when the director sent him a bouquet of flowers, along with a note that said that some famous actors, like Frank Sinatra, had achieved greatness in their smaller film roles. Mr. Cedar noted that Yehoram Gaon represented “the collective identity of a nation.” I totally agree with that statement.Both Chaim Topol and Yehoram Gaon gained attention as film actors in Israel in the 1960s. Topol had parts in two early 1960s films, “I Like Mike” and “El Dorado,” but his big break came with the 1964 “Sallah Shabbati” and his brilliant portrayal of an immigrant from North Africa who arrives in Israel with his wife and pack of children. The film, written and directed by Ephraim Kishon, was nominated for an Oscar and won the Golden Globe for best foreign–language film, with Topol winning a Golden Globe for “most promising newcomer.” For the fiftieth anniversary of its release, a restored print of “Sallah” is to be shown in mid-July at the Jerusalem Film Festival and it is hinted that it will be broadcast on TCM: Turner Movie Classics as part of its upcoming September television series, “The Projected Image-The Jewish Experience on Film.”“Sallah” was the first Israeli film to attract any real attention in this country, and Jews across America walked a little taller when they saw it on movie theater marquees.Two years later, Topol was playing Abou ibn Kader in Melville Shavelson’s “Cast A Giant Shadow.”Meanwhile, Yehoram Gaon, after leaving the army and the Nachal Entertainment Troupe, joined with Arik Einstein and Benny Amdursky to form a singing group called “Shlishiat Gesher Hayarkon” (Gesher Bridge Trio). Not so coincidentally, Mr. Einstein had performed with Topol in “Batzal Yarok” (Green Onion). Mr. Einstein, who died earlier this year, would later form “Chalonot Hagvohim” (The High Windows) and become one of Israel’s great songwriters, actors and vocalists; Mr. Amdursky, who died in 1994, had been part of the group called “the Dudaim,” along with Israel Gurion.Mr. Gaon’s first film role was with Mr. Einstein and Mr. Amdursky in the 1964 “Dalia Vehamalachim” (Dalia and the Sailors).While Topol, a Jew of Ashkenazi descent, was playing a Sephardi in “Sallah” and an Arab in “Cast A Giant Shadow,” Mr. Gaon, whose parents came from Turkey and Macedonia, seized on the opportunity to play a Moroccan in “Kazablan,” a stage role he was offered while studying acting in New York in 1967. “Kazablan” would change the actor/vocalist’s life; as he told me, he took on the part of this Sephardi Israeli, portrayed in the movie as a second-class citizen, as a lifetime role.To this day, people greet him in the streets of Israel by calling out “Kaza!” and he waves back with pride.Mr. Gaon’s stage performance brought him immediate acclaim. He also has become an advocate for Sephardic music, and the Ladino romanceros that he recorded remain favorites today.How interesting it is that both of these legends took their stage roles and turned them into two great cinematic performances. Topol came off the London stage as Tevye to star in Mr. Jewison’s adaptation of the play, and Mr. Gaon played Kazablan in Menachem Golan’s 1974 film version of the stage original.Yehoram Gaon still performs, his music is a staple of Israeli radio, and he takes pride in being a citizen and spokesperson for the city of Jerusalem. Mr. Gaon’s 1971 “Ani Yerushalmi” (I Was Born in Jerusalem) has him traveling on a carriage through the streets of the city, performing a variety of magnificent songs that were written by Dov Seltzer and Haim Hefer. In his 1989 “From Toledo to Jerusalem,” Mr. Gaon traces his Sephardic roots in Ladino song and narration; five years ago, he made “No Longer from Jerusalem.”His achievements include playing Eli in the 1969 classic “Siege,” the part of Yonatan Netanyahu in Menachem Golan’s 1977 “Operation Thunderbolt,” and Yoram in the 1982 television series called “Krovim, Krovim.” He and his good friend Gila Almagor have been doing a great deal of theater together lately; he also appears in concert. I still remember when Mr. Gaon performed the song “Rosa” from Kazablan at the 1975 Golden Globe Awards. It was one of those special moments, watching the Israeli crooner on television across the world, zeroing in on an adoring Jean Stapleton, who was there as a nominee for her portrayal of Edith in the television hit “All in the Family.”Topol has had a brilliant acting career, and his performance at the Folksbiene gala makes it clear that he still can belt it out. The actor reprised his Tevye role in 1990 on Broadway; it is impossible to forget the incredible gymnastics he performed onstage. After “Fiddler” and “Cast a Giant Shadow,” his most memorable roles were in Mr. Kishon’s 1967 “Ervinka,” the 1979 made-for-television “The House on Garibaldi Street,” his role as Berel Jastrow in the 1983 and 1989 TV miniseries “The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance,” and his incredible performance as Yacov Apfelschnitt in Jeroen Krabbe’s 1998 “Left Luggage,” a personal favorite. In 1979, Topol also was involved in creating the “New Media Bible”; he played the role of Abraham.Topol and Yehoram Gaon represent the best that classic Israeli cinema has to present. They deserve our praise, and all the honors bestowed on them. Both men were pioneers, and they remain vibrant forces in creating the new Jewish culture that was the dream of the country’s pioneers. Menahem Golan (Hebrew: מנחם גולן‎; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014) was an Israeli director and producer. He produced movies for such stars as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and was known for a period as a producer of comic book-style movies like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Captain America, and his aborted attempt to bring Spider-Man to the silver screen. Using the pen name of Joseph Goldman, Golan also wrote and \"polished\" film scripts.[1] He was co-owner of Golan-Globus with his cousin Yoram Globus.[2] Golan produced about 200 films, directed 44, won 8 times the Violin David Awards and The Israel Prize in Cinema. Menahem Golan was born on May 31, 1929, in Tiberias, then Mandate Palestine. He studied directing at the Old Vic School and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and filmmaking at New York University. During the Israeli War of Independence he served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force. Directing and film career Golan started out as an apprentice at Habima Theater in Tel Aviv. After completing his studies in theater direction, he staged plays in Israel. He gained experience as a filmmaker by working as an assistant to Roger Corman.[3] As a director, Golan is probably most known for his film Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan, 1977), about the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. He also produced the film Eskimo Limon (Lemon Popsicle, 1978), spawning many sequels and an American remake named The Last American Virgin. In 1979, he did an adaptation of an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel entitled The Magician of Lublin. Golan was responsible for the musical The Apple (1980), an unusual moral fable with a rock-disco soundtrack which appears on a number of lists of all-time-worst movies, but has developed a following as a cult film.[4] Golan\'s production company, The Cannon Group, produced a long line of films during the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Delta Force, Runaway Train, and some of the Death Wish sequels. In 1986, Cannon was taken over by Pathe Communications. Golan produced several comic book-style movies in the latter half of the 1980s, perhaps most notably Masters of the Universe, based on the toys of the same name and inspired by the comics work of Jack Kirby.[5] In 1987, Cannon gained infamy after their U.K.-based production of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace failed in theaters and provoked a negative backlash from fans. In 1989 Golan resigned from Cannon, and by 1993 it had folded. Immediately following Cannon\'s collapse, Golan became head of 21st Century Film Corporation and produced several medium-budget films. Golan was hoping to film Spider-Man in 1986 at Cannon studios in United Kingdom, and shoot the exteriors in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Dolph Lundgren was envisioned as the Green Goblin and Spider-Man creator Stan Lee was approached to cameo as J. Jonah Jameson.[6] Golan struggled for years to produce the Marvel Comics character, but failed after 21st Century Film Corporation went bankrupt and folded in 1996 (along with Carolco Pictures, another production company that had agreed to help Golan finance the film). Sony Pictures eventually got the Spider-Man rights and produced the first film in 2002. In 2002 he released his adaptation of Crime and Punishment. Personal life Golan was married and had three children.[3] Golan died while visiting Jaffa, Tel Aviv with family members in the early hours of August 8, 2014.[7] Ambulances immediately rushed to the scene, and following attempts to resuscitate him, paramedics pronounced him dead.[7] He was 85 years old.[8] Filmography as director 1960s El Dorado (1963) Shemona B\'Ekevot Ahat (1964) Dalia Vehamalahim (1964) Fortuna (1966) Einer spielt falsch (1966) 999 Aliza: The Policeman (1967) Tevye and His Seven Daughters (1968) What\'s Good for the Goose (1969) Margo Sheli (1969) 1970s Lupo! (1970) Attack at Dawn (1970) Malkat Hakvish (1971) Katz V\'Carasso (1971) Shod Hatelephonim Hagadol (1972) Escape to the Sun (1972) Kazablan (1974) Lepke (1975) Diamonds (1975) Operation Thunderbolt (1977) The Uranium Conspiracy (1978) The Magician of Lublin (1979) 1980s The Apple (1980) Enter the Ninja (1981) Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984) The Delta Force (1986) Over the Top (1987) Hanna\'s War (1988) Mack the Knife (1989) 1990s Zebrácká opera (1991) Hit the Dutchman (1992) Silent Victim (1993) Deadly Heroes (1993) Superbrain (1995) Russian Roulette - Moscow 95 (1995) Die Tunnelgangster von Berlin (1996) 1998 Lima: Breaking the Silence (1998) Armstrong (1998) The Versace Murder (1998) Legendary Israeli director and film producer Menahem Golan died on Friday. He was 85. Golan produced some of Israel\'s most memorable movies. In the 1970s he moved to Hollywood and directed many action films including those staring Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Sylvester Stallone. Golan is best known in Israel for directing the movie Eskimo Limon (Lemon Popsicle) and its sequels. Internationally, his production company as responsible for such block-busters as Delta Force, Death Wish and Masters of the Universe. Golan was born as Menahem Globus in 1929. After the Israeli War of Independence in 1948 he went to study theater in London. Upon his return he directed plays at the HaMatate Theater. In 1960 he went to study film at New York University. When he returned to Israel in 1963, he directed his first feature film \"El Dorado,\" starring Chaim Topol and Gila Almagor. A year later, in 1964 he directed the comedy \"Dalia And The Sailors.\" That same year he founded with his cousin Yoram Globus the production company Noah Films. One of the first films the company produced was Ephraim Kishon\'s \"Sallah Shabati,\" a comedy about Immigration to Israel, starring Chaim Topol. Other notable Israeli films the two cousins produced during the 1960s and 70s were Moshe Mizrahi\'s \"I Love You Rosa\" and \"The House on Schlouch Street\" and Boaz Davidson\'s \"Lemon Popsicle\" series. While producing, Golan continued to direct his own films, these included \"Fortuna,\" \"999 Aliza Mizrahi,\" \"Queen of the Highway,\" \"Kazablan,\" and \"Operation Thunderbolt,\" which was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. In 1978, the two cousins moved to Hollywood and purchased Cannon Group a small American production company. After a number of flops, the two began to produce a number of successful films and over the years gained a reputation of super-producers, after developing a new model to fund and distribute independent films. In 1986, Golan directed in Israel the Hollywood film \"Delta Force.\" The company reached its apex in 1987, in which it produced dozens of films including \"Over the Top,\" starring Sylvester Stallone. A year later in 1986 the company faced bankruptcy and Golan and Globus were forced to sell it. After this he founded the production company \"21st Century Film Corporation,\" which among other films produced \"Captain America\" in 1990. This company closed down too. In the mid-90s, Golan returned to Israel and began directing musicals on the Israeli stage. In 1999, Golan received the Israel Prize for cinema together with Israeli filmmaker David Perlov. The last Cannes Festival featured a screening of a documentary about Golan and his cousin Globus directed by Hilla Medalia called \"The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films.\" The film charted the two cousins career and complicated relationship. roducer/director Menahem Golan, whose prolific output of schlock action movies and occasional prestige projects made him a force to be dealt with in 1980s Hollywood, died Friday in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli and other news sources.He was 85. Details concerning his death were not available.Menahem\'s faith in me as an actor was the real reason for the breakthrough of my movie career. - Chuck NorrisHe built a short-lived U.S. film empire with his cousin Yoram Globus, with whom he had a relationship that varied from close-knit to non-speaking. In Hollywood, before their film production company imploded in the late 1980s, the enterprising pair was known as \"the Go-Go Boys.\"In their heyday, they turned out more than 30 films a year, including action flicks such as \"bloodsport,\" \"The Delta Force,\" \"Missing in Action\" and sequels to \"Death Wish.\"Although Golan referred to his low-budget fare as his \"action boutique\" movies, he didn\'t shy away from the term \"schlock.\" \"Schlock is entertainment for the masses,\" he told the Associated Press in 1985. \"It\'s fantasy. Storytelling without challenging the mind too much.\"lRelated Obituaries Marilyn Burns dies at 65; starred in \'Texas Chain Saw Massacre\' See all related 8 He cast action stars — such as Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson and Jean-Claude Van Damme — who helped pre-sell films to foreign distributors. \"Menahem\'s faith in me as an actor was the real reason for the breakthrough of my movie career,\" Norris told the Israeli Ynet news site. Golan also leaped on 1980s trends such as breakdancing, the centerpiece of his films \"Breakin\' \" and \"Breakin\' 2: Electric Boogaloo,\" both released in 1984. Critics often despaired at the films, but many found favor with audiences. Notable Deaths Photos of leaders, stars and other notable figures who have died in 2014. Golan was born in 1929 in Tiberias as Menachem Globus, according to the Jerusalem Post. He changed his name during his time in the Army, which included service during Israel\'s 1948 War of Independence. He studied theater in London and returned to Israel, where he directed his first film, \"El Dorado\" (1963), starring Topol, who went on to appear in several films in the U.S., including \"Fiddler on the Roof\" in 1974. In 1964, Golan and Yoram Globus founded a film production company and made several movies that were hits in Israel. They moved to Hollywood in the late 1970s and bought the fledgling Cannon Films. In addition to their action flicks, they backed prestige projects such as \"That Championship Season\" (1982), based on a play by Jason Miller; an adaptation of \"King Lear\" (1987) directed by Jean-Luc Godard; and \"Barfly\" (1987), based on the life of poet Charles Bukowski. But in the late 1980s, financial troubles mounted as they suffered some commercial flops on films that were relatively high budget, including \"Superman IV\" (1987) and \"Over the Top\" (1987), starring Sylvester Stallone as a competitive arm wrestler Menahem Golan arrives for a screening of \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2014. (Alberto Pizzoli, AFP/Getty Images) Golan left a severely cut-back Cannon in 1989, according to Variety. He continued to make movies and produced a live staging of \"The Sound of Music\" in Israel, but legal challenges dogged him, and many of his biggest announced films never came to be. Still, he accumulated a bountiful number of credits. According to the Internet Movie Database, Golan was listed as a producer on 209 films. Survivor information was not available. UPDATED: As the head of Cannon Films with cousin Yorum Globus, he was behind such films as \"The Delta Force,\" the \"Death Wish\" sequels, \"Masters of the Universe\" and \"bloodsport.\" Legendary filmmaker Menahem Golan, co-founder of The Cannon Group production company and Israeli cinema pioneer, has died. He was 85. According to multiple Israeli news outlets, Golan lost consciousness while strolling outside his house in the city of Jaffa with family members in the early hours of Friday evening. Ambulances rushed to the scene, and following attempts of more than an hour to resuscitate him, paramedics pronounced him dead.With cousin and partner Yoram Globus, Golan ran Cannon Films for a decade, releasing more than a dozen films a year in its prime. They bought the ailing company, which was launched in 1967, for $500,000 in 1979 and fueled an appetite for B-films that was created by the invention of the VCR. For a time, Cannon was on the brink of becoming the seventh Hollywood “major” studio.\"I\'m in complete and utter shock; I cannot come to grips with the news\", Globus told THR from his home in Tel Aviv.“Menahem lived, breathed and ate cinema, and he is undoubtedly a founding member of the Israeli cinematic landscape, locally and all of its appeal internationally,” he added. “We both managed to make our mark in Hollywood in our years working there and had the great fortune in life to make a living from our one and only hobby — not something that a lot of people get to do.”Golan produced more than 200 films including the action hits The Delta Force (1986) starring Chuck Norris and the Death Wish sequels toplined by Charles Bronson.He also produced such high-octane fare as Missing in Action (1984), also starring Norris, and its sequels; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986); the lightly regarded Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), which effectively disabled the franchise for years; Masters of The Universe (1987), starring Dolph Lundgren; and Jean-Claude Van Damme’s bloodsport (1988).In the documentary Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, which played this month at the Melbourne International Film Festival, THR critic David Rooney noted that music supervisor Richard Kraft likened the Cannon product pipeline to bowel movements dumped onto the international market with scant concern for quality or plot coherence: “You flush it. You make another one.”Cannon, though, also was behind much loftier fare, like John Cassavetes’ Love Streams (1984), which won Berlin’s Golden Bear, Robert Altman’s Fool for Love (1985), Franco Zefferelli\'s Otello (1986), Jean-Luc Godard\'s King Lear (1987) and Barbet Schroeder’s Barfly (1987).Born Menahem Globus to Polish immigrants on May 31, 1929, in the Northern Israeli city of Tiberias, he changed his surname for patriotic reasons to the Hebrew name of Golan upon serving in the Israeli Air Force during the country’s 1948 War of Independence. After finishing years of filmmaking studies at the Old Vic School, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and New York University, he returned to Israeli and directed for the stage.Dorado. A year later, he served as producer of Sallah Shabati starring noted Israeli actor Chaim Topol, which went on to win the Golden Globe for best foreign film and became the first Israeli feature to be nominated at the Academy Awards in the category.Golan co-founded local production company Noah Films; named after his father, it was his first business endeavor with his cousin Yoram. Noah Films was behind Academy Award nominated films 1972’s I Love You Rosa and 1973’s The House on Chelouche Street. In 1977, Golan directed Operation Thunderbolt, based on the previous year’s real event of the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda, a movie that was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language Film and led the way for the cousins to try and conquer Hollywood.By 1989, Golan had resigned from Canon, which folded altogether four years later, while still courting Stan Lee\'s Marvel Comics and managing to produce a 1990 version of Captain America under the 21st Century Film Corp. His longtime efforts to produce a Spider-Man film fell short. Golan soon returned to Israel and to theater in the early 1990s and directed local adaptations of such musicals as Annie and The Sound of Music.21st Century Film Corp. went bankrupt in 1996.The trials and tribulations of the cousins also were the recent focus of the Israeli documentary The Go Go Boys by director Hila Medalia, which premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where Golan was in attendance for the last of many, many times.\"He made it to Cannes relying on a wheelchair and a walker [after injuring himself in a fall] but still went out every single night, just to talk about cinema,\" Globus said.He noted that Golan also attended a recent screening of Go Go Boys at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was pleased with the reception the film had received there.During the past two decades, Golan focused on local productions and was the recipient of Israeli Film Academy’s Ophir Award for Lifetime Achievement and The Israel Prize, given annually by the government for excellence and contribution to cinema. Kazablan (\"Casablan\" or \"Kasablan\" in its first production) is an early Israeli Hebrew language play, staged first as a 1954 drama followed by a 1964 screen adaptation, later as a 1966 musical comedy, and still later produced as a 1974 musical comedy film. The name \"Kazablan\" comes from Casablanca, the birthplace of the main character.[1] The musical\'s huge success made \"young Jerusalem-born singer\" Yehoram Gaon \"not only...an overnight singing star, but also a figure of solidarity and pride for people of Sephardic origin, many of whom were entering a theatre for the first time.\"[2] Gaon later reprised his role in the film version.[3] 1974 Film:Musical Main article: Kazablan (film) The film was directed by Menahem Golan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Haim Hefer, and starred Yehoram Gaon as Kazablan and Efrat Lavi as Rachel.[3] It was shot in Jerusalem and Jaffa.[19] The movie was filmed in both a Hebrew and English version, and according to press releases, each scene was first filmed in one language and then the other.[20] Although it was a screen version of an earlier play, the movie has sometimes been cited as an example of the Bourekas film genre in Israel,[21] a \"peculiarly Israeli genre of comic melodramas or tearjerkers... based on ethnic stereotypes.\"[22] The term is said to have been coined by the Israeli film director Boaz Davidson, the creator of several such films, as a play-on-words on the \"spaghetti western\" genre, since spaghetti (a reference to the fact that these films were produced in Italy) was a type of food and Bourekas is an Israeli food, or at least a food that is now part of Israeli cuisine, brought in by immigrants from other countries.[23] A DVD of the film was released on May 6, 2008.[19] Musical numbers[24] I\'m so frightened (\"Ani Kol Kach Pochedet\"): Lyrics by Haim Hefer, music by Dov Seltzer, performed by Adi Etzion Democracy (\"Democratia\"): Lyrics by Amos Ettinger, music by Dov Seltzer, performed by Yehoram Gaon There is a place (\"Yesh Makom\"): Lyrics by Amos Ettinger, music by Dov Seltzer, performed by Yehoram Gaon Jaffa (\"Yafo\"): Lyrics by Amos Ettinger, music by Dov Seltzer, performed by Aliza Azikri We are all Jews (\"Kulanu Yehudim\"): Lyrics by Haim Hefer, music by Dov Seltzer, performed by Kazablan Self-respect (\"Kol Ha-Kavod\"): Lyrics by Dan Almagor, music by Dov Seltzer, performed by Yehoram Gaon Anything happen? (\"Ma Kara\"): Lyrics by Haim Hefer, music by Dov Seltzer, performed by Yehoram Gaon Brit milah (circumcision) pageant (\"Mizmorey Brit Mila\"): Lyrics by Haim Hefer, music by Dov Seltzer, performed by Yehoram Gaon Rosa (\"Roza\"): Lyrics by Haim Hefer, music by Dov Seltzer, performed by Yehoram Gaon Get off my back, Kazablan (\"Tered Mimeni, Kazablan\"): Lyrics by Dan Almagor, music by Dov Seltzer, performed by Yehoram Gaon Response and reviews The film earned two 1974 Golden Globe nominations (Hollywood Foreign Press Association), one for Best Foreign Language Film and one for Best Song.[25][26] Highly successful with audiences, one website describes it in this way: \"West Side Story with a Middle Eastern beat, this fun fantasy features more than 1,000 actors, singers and dancers!,\" and \"Israel\'s hit musical becomes the film that breaks all box office records!.[27] One review noted that the movie and the recording outsold both \"Fiddler on the Roof\" and \"The Sound of Music\" in Israel.[20] Additionally, Yehoram Gaon\'s recording of \"Kol HaKavod\" became the best-selling record up till that time in Israel\'s history.[20] However, although it was positively received by the public (and continues to be shown as part of Jewish film festivals),[28] and despite its two Golden Globe nominations, not all professional reviews were good. TimeOutChicago described it as \"An Israeli musical directed by the dreaded Menahem Golan that manages to come off as an uncomfortable cross between Jesus Christ Superstar, Fiddler on the Roof and West Side Story.\"[29] Judith Crist, in her review for New York Magazine, stated that \"You don\'t have to be Jewish to dislike \'Kazablan,\' but it helps. At best, it portrays Jews as stereotypes and clowns.\"[20] Kazablan is a 1974 Israeli musical film directed by Menahem Golan and written by Menahem Golan and Haim Hefer. The film stars Yehoram Gaon, Efrat Lavie, Arieh Elias, Etti Grotes and Yehuda Efroni. The film was released on May 8, 1974, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.