Sallah Shabati
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Sallah Shabati (Hebrew: סאלח שבתי) is a 1964 Israeli comedy film about the chaos of Israeli immigration and resettlement, as well as the issues Mizrahi Jews faced in the developing Israeli society.
Sallah Shabati: Directed by Ephraim Kishon. With Topol, Geula Nuni, Gila Almagor, Albert Cohen. The sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history (until that time) is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months.
- (1.2K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Ephraim Kishon
- 1965-03-10
A comedy film about a Yemenite Jewish family's struggles to settle in Israel after immigration. The film satirizes the bureaucracy, politics and culture of the new state and features Chaim Topol as the main character.
Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes. Availability: Worldwide. This sharp, often hilarious, satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history, is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months.
- 3 min
- IsraeliFilms
A lazy Asian Jew (Topol) schemes for better living conditions for himself and his family in 1949 Israel.
- (11)
- Ephraim Kishon
- Comedy
- Topol
Sallah Shabati, a Mizrahi Jewish immigrant, travels from Yemen to Israel with his family. Upon their arrival, they are taken to the camp and given a dreadful one-room tin house, ...Read more where the entire family sleeps.
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His film, which he based on the skit, is a biting satire that takes no prisoners, including the smug Ashkenazi establishment and the new immigrants from Muslim countries. Sallah, the film’s main protagonist moves his large family to Israel and is sent to live in a temporary migrant camp.
