Hole in the Moon (1964)

Original title

חור בלבנה

Directed by

Uri Zohar

Genre

comedy film

Country

Israel

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 1960s Israeli movie uses a story within a story to make fun of politics and society. It comes in two parts and tips its hat to old silent films.

satiricalwhimsicalplayfulthought-provokingexperimentalself-referentialcheeky

What happens

Hole in the Moon (Hebrew: חור בלבנה; Hor B'Levana) is a 1964 Israeli avant-garde-satiric movie directed by Uri Zohar. It was the first film to emerge from the New Sensibility movement in Israeli cinema. The film comprises two parts and employs the movie within a movie structure. The title of the film derives from a famous Hebrew song (that itself is based on a Czech folk melody) and also pays tribute to Georges Méliès's film A Trip to the Moon (1902). It was Zohar's final political film and since its release has garnered the status of Israeli cinema classic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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