The House on Chelouche Street (1973)

Original title

הבית ברחוב שלוש

Directed by

Moshé Mizrahi

Genre

drama film, coming of age

Country

Israel

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A semi-autobiographical story about a Jewish family who immigrates from Egypt to Jaffa during the British Mandate in Palestine. The film follows a teenage boy and his widowed mother as they adjust to a new life and face personal and historical challenges.

semi-autobiographicalnostalgicintimateslow-pacedbittersweetgroundedcontemplativefamily-centered

What happens

The House on Chelouche Street (Hebrew: הבית ברחוב שלוש, romanized: HaBayit b'Rechov Shalosh) is a 1973 semi-autobiographical Israeli New Sensibility film by Israeli director Moshé Mizrahi, who also co-wrote the screenplay. It was filmed in Hebrew, Egyptian Arabic and Judeo-Spanish (a.k.a. Ladino, a Jewish language mostly derived from Old Castilian). The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This is the first Israeli film whose plot is set during the British Mandate in the land of Israel. The film is largely based on the personal biography of its creator, Moshe Mizrahi. In 1946, at the age of 15, Mizrahi immigrated to Israel from Alexandria with his widowed mother and younger brother Shabtai. They settled in Jaffa. On July 13, 1948, his nine-year-old brother was killed in an Egyptian bombing of Tel Aviv. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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