Kazablan (1973)

Original title

קזבלן

Directed by

Menahem Golan

Genre

musical film

Country

Israel

Runtime

2h 03m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Moroccan Jewish man living in Jaffa falls in love with a woman from an Ashkenazi family, but their different backgrounds create obstacles. The story uses songs and dance to explore love and cultural divides in 1970s Israel.

upbeatromanticdramaticmusicalsentimentalnostalgiclivelyfolk-inspired

What happens

Kazablan is a 1973 Israeli film in the genre of musical and Bourekas films, directed by Menachem Golan and starring Yehoram Gaon, Efrat Lavie, Arieh Elias, Etti Grotes and Yehuda Efroni. The script was written by Menachem Golan and Haim Hefer, and is based on the musical of the same name from 1966. The film was released in Israel on July 7, 1973, and as of today is the second most watched film in the history of Israeli motion pictures, with 1,222,500 tickets sold (the country's population at the time was about 2.8 million inhabitants). It was also released in the United States on May 8, 1974, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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