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Uri Barbash
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Uri Barbash is an Israeli film director. His film co-wrote with Eran Preis, Beyond the Walls (1984) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is about an overcrowded prison where Jewish and Arab inmates set aside their prejudices and unite in a daring escape plan. His film Echad Mi'Shelanu (One of Us) (1989) is an Israeli …
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Spring 1941 · 2007Spring 1941
★ 6.32007
MovieDramaRomance
After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former grocer. With the Planck family hiding in her attic, Emilia finds her feelings for the physician growing stronger than she wants, or can control -- despite the dangers of the situation.
The Dreamers · 1987The Dreamers
★ 7.01987
MovieHistoryDrama
Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film chronicles the beginning of the modern Jewish struggle for a homeland.
One of Us · 1989One of Us
★ 5.71989
MovieDrama
A few Palestinian guerilla's break into an Israeli camp in the occupied territories. They kill a few Israeli soldiers before they are killed, apart from one who dies in the camp after being captured alive. The Israeli military dispatch an investigator to the camp to see if there was cold blooded murder (people at the camp had claimed he was shot while trying to escape). It turns out that the investigator dispatched is a friend of the camp commander - the rest of the plot is basically about the position of both of these characters as regards being honest or faithful to ones friends. There is unbearable tension, increased by the fact that they are both very strongly attracted to one of the female soldiers on the camp.
Beyond the Walls · 1984Beyond the Walls
★ 5.21984
MovieDrama
In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri's daughter and Issan's wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside.
The War After · 1991The War After
★ 8.01991
MovieDrama
A story of an army colonel who is fighting the accusations in committing war crime but his only witness is comatose in the hospital.
Kapo in Jerusalem · 2015Kapo in Jerusalem
★ 7.02015
MovieDramaHistory
An exploration of the moral and survival dilemmas in Auschwitz from the point of view of a deputy head of a block and a few of the prisoners from his block who survived the horrors of the camp, immigrated to Israel in the 40's and are still struggling to begin new life in the newborn state of Israel. Based on a true story.
Beyond the Walls II · 1992Beyond the Walls II
★ 6.01992
Movie
A sequel to Beyond the Walls (1984).
Stigma · 1982Stigma
★ 8.51982
MovieDrama
A young Israeli suffers a personal crisis after being released from a psychiatric hospital and returns home to find that his wife has left him taking their son with her.




