Itay Tiran

Acting

Itay Tiran

Born March 23, 1980 · Petach Tikwa, Israel (age 46)

Itay Tiran (Hebrew: איתי טיראן‎; born March 23, 1980) is an Israeli stage and screen actor, known for his roles in Forgiveness (2006),[1] Beaufort (2007), The Debt (2007), Homeland (2008), Lebanon (2009), and The Promise (2011), Anleitung zum Ungluecklichsein (2012), Die Lebenden (2012). Tiran is one of the most acclaimed Israeli actors of his day. His performances have gained him various awards …

Known For

Run Boy RunRun Boy Run · 2014
Run Boy Run
7.12014
MovieDramaWar
A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan.
Spider in the WebSpider in the Web · 2019
Spider in the Web
5.02019
MovieThriller
A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.
AfterthoughtAfterthought · 2015
Afterthought
6.22015
MovieDrama
Haifa on a sunny day. Moshe is a crumbling man walking up the Carmel Mountain on yet another work day. Will this day mark his collapse? Uri walks down the mountain to board a ship and leave behind all the things he loves and despises. His sense of belonging is losing ground. He is likely to miss his military reserve service-call, thus risking jail. Will the two collide or pass through one another? An existential comedy, where the overbearing mountain with its endless stairs takes control over destinies in this unique panorama of the Mediterranean port city.
The Pursuit of UnhappinessThe Pursuit of Unhappiness · 2012
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
5.92012
MovieComedy
Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contradictory and, no surprises here, single young woman in her late-twenties.
LebanonLebanon · 2009
Lebanon
6.52009
MovieDramaWar
During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
DemonDemon · 2015
Demon
5.82015
MovieDramaHorror
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
BeaufortBeaufort · 2007
Beaufort
6.32007
MovieHistoryDrama
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.
Outsider: FreudOutsider: Freud · 2024
Outsider: Freud
8.02024
MovieDocumentary
OUTSIDER. FREUD is a new creative documentary film, that takes us on a journey into the life and work of Freud in four acts - a combination of animations, dreams, leading psychoanalysts in the world, in a thought-provoking journey about Judaism, biography, psychoanalysis, and the role of marginalization as a strategy of power in shaping one of the most influential figures in modern times, with Itay Tiran as Freud.

Movies

Run Boy RunRun Boy Run · 2014
Run Boy Run
7.12014
MovieDramaWar
A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan.
Spider in the WebSpider in the Web · 2019
Spider in the Web
5.02019
MovieThriller
A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.
AfterthoughtAfterthought · 2015
Afterthought
6.22015
MovieDrama
Haifa on a sunny day. Moshe is a crumbling man walking up the Carmel Mountain on yet another work day. Will this day mark his collapse? Uri walks down the mountain to board a ship and leave behind all the things he loves and despises. His sense of belonging is losing ground. He is likely to miss his military reserve service-call, thus risking jail. Will the two collide or pass through one another? An existential comedy, where the overbearing mountain with its endless stairs takes control over destinies in this unique panorama of the Mediterranean port city.
The Pursuit of UnhappinessThe Pursuit of Unhappiness · 2012
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
5.92012
MovieComedy
Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contradictory and, no surprises here, single young woman in her late-twenties.
LebanonLebanon · 2009
Lebanon
6.52009
MovieDramaWar
During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
DemonDemon · 2015
Demon
5.82015
MovieDramaHorror
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
BeaufortBeaufort · 2007
Beaufort
6.32007
MovieHistoryDrama
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.
Outsider: FreudOutsider: Freud · 2024
Outsider: Freud
8.02024
MovieDocumentary
OUTSIDER. FREUD is a new creative documentary film, that takes us on a journey into the life and work of Freud in four acts - a combination of animations, dreams, leading psychoanalysts in the world, in a thought-provoking journey about Judaism, biography, psychoanalysis, and the role of marginalization as a strategy of power in shaping one of the most influential figures in modern times, with Itay Tiran as Freud.
The Dead and the LivingThe Dead and the Living · 2012
The Dead and the Living
4.62012
MovieDrama
The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which takes her from Berlin to Romania via Vienna and Warsaw - about losing one's homeland and discovering oneself, about hope and responsibility.
The DebtThe Debt · 2007
The Debt
5.82007
MovieDramaThriller
The year is 1964. Rachel Brener is one of 3 young Mossad agents teem who caught "THE SURGEON OF BIRKENAU" - a Nazi monster who was never brought to trial in Israel. The official reason was that he was shot to death while trying to escape from Israeli captivity in a safe house somewhere in Europe. 30 years after, the well communicated death story of the monster could be questionable, a small article appears in a local unimportant paper in a small town in Ukraine. Surprisingly the Surgeon is ALIVE and is willing to admit his crimes against the human race and especially the Jews. The 3 older x Mossad agents who are in their late 60th became aware to this unfortunate threatening knowledge. The fact was that the "Surgeon" managed to escape from his guards 30 years ago.
Hill StartHill Start · 2014
Hill Start
9.02014
MovieComedy
A Comic drama that tells the story of the Geva family - a bourgeois family from Jerusalem. When the mother of the family, Ora, goes into a coma after a car accident, the family members try to bring her back in every way possible.
Sara Stein: MasadaSara Stein: Masada · 2019
Sara Stein: Masada
2019
MovieThrillerDrama
SweetsSweets · 2013
Sweets
5.22013
MovieComedyCrime
Salah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab sector in Israel by opening a new chain of candy stores. 'The Firm', an Israeli corporation headed by Klausner , that controls Israeli candy market, resent Salah on his former business move - taking control over the Israeli market of Turkish coffee. Klausner sees the new business initiative of Salah as a real threat, not only a business one but also a cultural and a political one, even a real challenge against Zionism itself. In a disguise of a Business struggle the story reveals moral dilemmas and a cultural struggle: the Arab businessman trying to integrate in Modern Israel against the dominant Zionist culture.
ForgivenessForgiveness · 2006
Forgiveness
4.72006
MovieDrama
On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors. A legend says that to this day, the survivors have been communicating with the ghosts of the village. Forgiveness tells the story of David Adler, a 20-year old American-Israeli who decides to move back to Israel, only to find himself committed to a mental institution that sits on the ruins of a Palestinian village called Deir Yassin. Flashbacks and flashforwards reveal the events that led up to his hospitalization.
HomelandHomeland · 2008
Homeland
6.02008
MovieDramaHistory
1948 War. Lolek, a young Holocaust survivor ,arrives in Israel and thrown
 in the middle of the desert.
A stranger to the language and the new identity he is given, he is assigned in an isolated post under a brutal commander and the burning sun.
 Afflicted by homesickness and the heat, he sets out to look for some shade
soulssouls · 2025
souls
2025
MovieFantasyDrama
In his new, contemporary reincarnation, Grisha lives with his mother in Jaffa, but his soul has been wandering the world for 400 years. Born in the 17th century in a Jewish shtetl, he dies and is reincarnated, journeying through centuries, across countries, and into different bodies. What compels him to return to Earth time and time again? An unforgiven sin or an all-consuming love for his soulmate? What is life—a blessing or a curse? His mother, Marina, is skeptical of all his fantasies. To her, “Life is the one and only; everything else is just a beautiful metaphor.”
Sara Stein - Shalom Berlin, Shalom Tel AvivSara Stein - Shalom Berlin, Shalom Tel Aviv · 2019
Sara Stein - Shalom Berlin, Shalom Tel Aviv
2019
MovieDramaCrime
Berlin criminal investigator Sara Stein cultivates a low-key style. No superwoman, she abhors violence and relies on her gift for convincing others that she‘s trustworthy. Above all, she enjoys working in Berlin and Tel Aviv. Her being Jewish is a major asset, since she can navigate sure-footedly through the morass of explosive and impenetrable conflicts among Jews, Arabs and Palestinians. Sara‘s a team worker, whether she and her colleagues are working on the case of a murdered woman DJ in Berlin or that of a manslaughter out of compassion in Tel Aviv. Though she falls in love with the Israeli pianist David, she is fiercely independent and reluctant to commit herself. She lives for her cases and, beyond this, for a dream of peace in her beloved Israel.
Sara Stein - Jewels in the GraveSara Stein - Jewels in the Grave · 2019
Sara Stein - Jewels in the Grave
2019
MovieThriller
It is Chief Inspector Sara Stein's first case in Tel Aviv. That nobody here has been waiting for her is quickly made clear by her colleagues Shimon Ben Godin and Jakoov Blok. Nevertheless, she is given the assignment to investigate the case, because it is her predecessor Noam Shavit, who is found dead in his apartment - suffocated under a plastic bag. Quick parallels are drawn to a robbery that is already two years old. It had the same action, theft of jewelry, even the foreign pullover fibers that are found on the bodies. But was it really the same killer? Or did Shavit come to terms with the perpetrator and pay for it? The trail leads Sara through the Arab Ghetto to the affluent district of Tel Aviv. But in the end, the solution is so close ...
Richard IIIRichard III · 2023
Richard III
2023
MovieHistoryDrama
The royal family is in conflict and at its center - a rejected, hurt and injured child who in his adulthood becomes a cruel dictator, a malignant disease that mercilessly brutalizes those who brutalized him. An eloquent and touching murderous clown who takes us on a spectacular journey of self-destruction. The damaged villain who steps on corpses on his way to the throne - is actually a mirror of human society, for all its flaws, a warning light for all of us, because why stop at the family when you can eliminate the country?
Sara Stein - Old FriendsSara Stein - Old Friends · 2019
Sara Stein - Old Friends
2019
MovieCrimeDrama
Missing human rights activist Dori Meyer's severed hand is found on a Tel Aviv beach. Sara and Blok investigate.

TV Shows

The Net – Promised LandThe Net – Promised Land · 2022
The Net – Promised Land
7.12022
SeriesDrama
HostagesHostages · 2013
Hostages
6.12013
SeriesDrama
The night before a high profile operation on the PM, the surgeon due to perform the procedure is surprised at her family home by four masked men. The gang quickly take control of her and her family and order her to kill the PM.
Mossad 101Mossad 101 · 2015
Mossad 101
6.32015
SeriesDrama
Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is surrounded by surveillance cameras and is equipped with technological devices. The compound operates a training course in which 13 trainees are sent to complicated missions in order to test their suitability for the occupation, and their improvisation, seduction and impersonation abilities. Yonna, the commander of the course, criticizes the mediocrity of Mossad's agents and demands from the new trainees a higher level of execution. He decides to create a new training program to test his trainees via unusual and radical situations, in which, apart from excellence, Yonna demands a creative "out of the box" thinking.
Ha-Ex Ha-MitologiHa-Ex Ha-Mitologi · 2007
Ha-Ex Ha-Mitologi
2007
SeriesComedyDrama
A woman explores all of her past relationships after a psychic tells her she's already dated her future husband.
The PromiseThe Promise · 2011
The Promise
8.02011
SeriesDrama
The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather's involvement in the final years of Palestine under the British mandate.
Sara Stein: From Berlin to Tel AvivSara Stein: From Berlin to Tel Aviv · 2016
Sara Stein: From Berlin to Tel Aviv
4.32016
SeriesCrime
As a criminal investigator of Jewish descent working in Berlin, Sara Stein was used to operating independently of everyone else. Her keen instincts and sound judgement enabled her to navigate sure-footedly through many sensitive cases. But it was not until she found herself investigating the murder of an Israeli DJ that politics and religion played such an important role in her life. Now facing new challenges as a detective in Tel Aviv, Sara continues to strive for truth and justice while dreaming of peace for her beloved new home, Israel.