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| '''Eli''' (Tuvia Tavi) works as an orderly in a nursing home ("old age home") in Safed. He serves food to the elderly, feeds and bathes them, tends to the garden, and is responsible for the building’s maintenance under the watchful eye of the strict home manager, Stein (Shlomo Bar-Shavit). In his free time, he draws portraits of the elderly residents and tries to sell them at a nearby gallery, but there are no buyers for his sketches. He rarely speaks and appears eccentric. When he walks from the nursing home to his room in the city, children stare at him as if he is odd and mentally unstable. | '''Eli''' (Tuvia Tavi) works as an orderly in a nursing home ("old age home") in Safed. He serves food to the elderly, feeds and bathes them, tends to the garden, and is responsible for the building’s maintenance under the watchful eye of the strict home manager, Stein (Shlomo Bar-Shavit). In his free time, he draws portraits of the elderly residents and tries to sell them at a nearby gallery, but there are no buyers for his sketches. He rarely speaks and appears eccentric. When he walks from the nursing home to his room in the city, children stare at him as if he is odd and mentally unstable. | ||
| Of all the elderly residents, he is particularly drawn to Rachel (Berta Litvinov), an elderly woman from Kiev who speaks broken Hebrew. The other residents gossip in Yiddish about the relationship between Eli and Rachel. Rachel likes Eli and wants to help him. She dresses as a tourist, goes to the gallery, and buys Eli’s drawings. He is overjoyed that someone has bought his sketches, and Rachel encourages him, telling him that a great future awaits him. | |||
| ==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
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1970 film
| The Dreamer | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Dan Wolman |
| Written by | Dan Wolman |
| Produced by | Ami Artzi Christopher C. Dewey Dennis Friedland |
| Starring | Tuvia Tavi |
| Cinematography | Paul Glickman |
| Edited by | Barry H. Prince |
| Music by | Gershon Kingsley |
| Distributed by | Cannon Films |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | Israel |
| Language | Hebrew |
The Dreamer (Hebrew: Ha-Timhoni) is a 1970 Israeli drama film written and directed by Dan Wolman, his first feature film. The lead roles are played by Tuvia Tavi, Laura Rivlin, and Berta Litvinov. The film was a failure in Israel but was accepted into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and was screened in New York for more than three months.
The film was shot at the Beit HaSarayah in Safed, which at the time served as a nursing home for Melab'n, and in the alleyways of the old city of Safed.
The plot centers around an eccentric young man who is (platonically) attracted to an elderly woman, until a young and attractive girl appears. The role of the elderly woman was initially offered to Ida Kaminska, but she was unable to appear and recommended her friend, Berta Litvinov, who was 74 at the time.
Synopsis
Eli (Tuvia Tavi) works as an orderly in a nursing home ("old age home") in Safed. He serves food to the elderly, feeds and bathes them, tends to the garden, and is responsible for the building’s maintenance under the watchful eye of the strict home manager, Stein (Shlomo Bar-Shavit). In his free time, he draws portraits of the elderly residents and tries to sell them at a nearby gallery, but there are no buyers for his sketches. He rarely speaks and appears eccentric. When he walks from the nursing home to his room in the city, children stare at him as if he is odd and mentally unstable.
Of all the elderly residents, he is particularly drawn to Rachel (Berta Litvinov), an elderly woman from Kiev who speaks broken Hebrew. The other residents gossip in Yiddish about the relationship between Eli and Rachel. Rachel likes Eli and wants to help him. She dresses as a tourist, goes to the gallery, and buys Eli’s drawings. He is overjoyed that someone has bought his sketches, and Rachel encourages him, telling him that a great future awaits him.
Cast
- Tuvia Tavi as Eli
- Leora Rivlin [he] as Girl
- Berta Litwina as Old Woman Rachel
- Shlomo Bar-Shavit as Manager of Home
- Dvora Kedar as Mother (as Devora Halter-Keidar)
- Natan Cogan [he] as Father
- Yisrael Segal as Waiter
- Nathan Wolfovich [he] as Mushkin (as Nathan W. Volfovitz)
- Bila Rabinovitz as Litvinna
References
- "Festival de Cannes: The Dreamer". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
External links
- The Dreamer at IMDb
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