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Micha Shagrir (Hebrew: מיכה שגריר) (November 1, 1937 – February 4, 2015) was an Israeli film director, producer, radio presenter, and journalist. He produced feature and documentary films and TV shows.
He was the head of Kastel Productions, one of the founders of the Sam Spiegel School for Film & Television, Jerusalem, and a chairman of the Israel Film Fund.
Biography
Micha Shagrir was born in Linz, Austria as Josef Michael Schwager. (Among other films, Shagrir made a documentary about the Bischofstrasse the street in Linz where his family lived.) His father Karl Schwager emigrated to Palestine in 1921, where he lived in kibbutz Heftziba and where he met Micha Shagrir's mother, Vally (Yehudit). She already had a son Chaim, from her recently deceased husband Georg Grünwald. They returned to Austria in 1932 or 1933, but immediately after the Nazi's Anschluss, in April 1938 they emigrated to Palestine. At first they lived in Heftziba, later in Tel Aviv and Holon. Later Micha lived in other places. In 1949 the family changed their surname to Shagrir (which means "ambassador" in Hebrew). The father took the name Hanan, and the mother Yehudit
Micha Shagrir graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Micha Shagrir was married to Aliza Shagrir (nee Levi) in Jerusalem in 1961. She was murdered during the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing while on Sukkot vacation and passing by the assaulted rue Copernic synagogue. They had two sons, Oron and Hagai.
Awards
- 1999: Honorary Fellow of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School
- 2005: Jerusalem Film Festival Life Achievement Award
- Israeli Film Academy's Life Achievement Award
References
- Micha Shagrir - 50 years of Filmmaking
- ^ Hannah Brown, Micha Shagrir, pillar of the Israeli film industry, dies, The Jerusalem Post, February 4, 2015
- ^ Micha Shagrir, interview
- ^ https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1175514 Studio portrait of the Schwager family taken shortly before the Anschluss, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- עליזה שגריר לוי זל
External links
- Micha Shagrir Film Collection, Israeli Film Archive