Eli Gorenstein

Acting

Eli Gorenstein

Born August 31, 1952 · Tel Aviv, Israel (age 74)

Eli Gorenstein (born August 31, 1952) is an Israeli actor, voice actor, director, singer and cellist. Gorenstein was born in Tel Aviv and was raised in Ramat Gan during his childhood. His maternal grandfather was philosopher Felix Weltsch. He went to New York City to study theatre and music and he even holds a master's degree at Tel Aviv University. He began his career sometime during the 1960s a…

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Gett: The Trial of Viviane AmsalemGett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem · 2014
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
★ 7.52014
MovieDrama
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.
Hanna's WarHanna's War · 1988
Hanna's War
★ 5.21988
MovieDramaWar
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, however, leads to her capture, torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police.
The Awakening of Motti WolkenbruchThe Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch · 2018
The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
★ 6.02018
MovieComedy
The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him, because they all look just like her. The situation gets even more complicated, when Motti secretly falls in love with the non-Jewish girl Laura, a so-called Shiksa.
Urban TaleUrban Tale · 2012
Urban Tale
★ 4.22012
MovieDrama
A boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children's mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their father leads them to hospitals, nursing homes and holding cells. In the course of the quest the brother and sister meet people who provide them - like in parallel quantum universes - a glance into what their future lives may hold for them.
SirensSirens · 2017
Sirens
2017
Movie
As missiles rain down on Tel Aviv, a frustrated Israeli couple faces a series of misadventures after an early morning call from the fertility doctor, in this frantic, funny and surprise-filled Israeli Academy Award winner for Best Short Film.
AntennaAntenna · 2016
Antenna
★ 7.02016
MovieDrama
Joshua, an 80-year old Holocaust survivor, discovers one morning, that a cellular antenna was installed on the roof of his house. It turned out that his neighbor has rented his part of the rooftop to a cellular company. Joshua feels a terrible injustice was done. He starts believing that all his diseases and pains are caused by the antenna's radiation. Joshua obsessively starts feeling the radiation everywhere and develops a persecution disorder which risks his life. He goes to war against his neighbor. His wife Sarah, and his 3 adult sons are dragged unwillingly into this vortex. The crisis reveals the personal problems of each of his sons, and they are forced to deal with their father's dark shadow.
The Emperor's New ClothesThe Emperor's New Clothes · 1987
The Emperor's New Clothes
★ 6.01987
MovieComedyMusic
In 19th century Europe, to celebrate the emperor's daughter's betrothal to a rich prince, a group of prisoners are set free. Among them are a pair of con artists who convince the emperor to hire them to tailor the wedding apparel, which they claim will only be visible to intelligent and competent people.
The Wedding Entertainer (or the Tale of Moishe Badhan)The Wedding Entertainer (or the Tale of Moishe Badhan) · 2026
The Wedding Entertainer (or the Tale of Moishe Badhan)
2026
MovieComedyDrama
Jerusalem's greatest badchan (Hasidic wedding comedian), wrecked his career because of liquor and a big mouth, gets a second chance as the sidekick of the famous American Badchan Meshulam. At the wedding, everything spins out of control.

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The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann TapesThe Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes · 2022
The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes
★ 6.02022
MovieDocumentaryWar
A few weeks before the opening of the Eichmann trial, transcripts of recorded conversations that Adolf Eichmann had with a Dutch Nazi journalist, Willem Sassen, were mysteriously handed over to prosecutor Gideon Hausner. The conversations were held a few years before Eichmann was brought to Israel by the Mossad. During the trial, Eichmann tried to convince that he was only a bureaucrat who carried out orders, but in the transcripts, Eichmann was found boasting and proud of his significant role in planning and executing the Final Solution. For the first time, we will confront Eichmann with himself in full color, revealing the hidden factors and motives that succeeded in hiding these recordings.

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