The House on Chelouche Street (1973)

Directors

Moshé Mizrahi

Cast

Avner Hizkiyahu, Chaim Banai, Etti Grotes, Gila Almagor, Michal Bat-Adam, Shaike Ophir, Yosef Shiloach, Yossi Pollak

The story

The film tells the story of a Sephardi family of Egyptian Jewish immigrants from Alexandria that settle in 1947 Tel Aviv. The family consists of a 33-year-old widowed wife, Clara, (played by Gila Almagor, one of the most prominent actresses in Israel for the last three decades) and her four children. They live in a working-class neighborhood surrounded by their extended family, including Clara's mother Mazal, Clara's uncle Rafael, and Sultana, his wife.

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