| Beyond the Sea | |
| Director: | Jacob Goldwasser |
| Producer: | Ronni Akerman Marek Rozenbaum |
| Starring: | Aryeh Moskona Dafna Rechter Moti Giladi Mili Avital Yair Lapid |
| Music: | Shlomo Gronich |
| Cinematography: | David Gurfinkel |
| Editing: | Anat Lubarsky |
| Runtime: | 91 minutes |
| Country: | Israel |
| Language: | Hebrew |
Beyond the Sea (Hebrew: מעבר לים, translit. Me'ever Layam, also known as Over the Ocean) is a 1991 Israeli drama film directed by Jacob Goldwasser. It stars Aryeh Moskona, Dafna Rechter, Moti Giladi, and Mili Avital. Yair Lapid, who later became Prime Minister of Israel, was also in the cast.[1] The film, a family drama set in the 1960s, was critically acclaimed, and won the Ophir Award for Best Film.[2] The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3]
In the film, starring Aryeh Moscona and Dafna Rechter in the role of Menachem and Rosa Greenberg, a couple of hard-pressed Holocaust survivors. Their friend, Maurice Greenspan (Motti Giladi), made his fortune in Canada in shady deals, and he is a stubborn type who implores the couple to emigrate from Israel to a better life in Canada. The son of the Greenburg's, Haim "Haymon" Greenberg (Uri Alter), aware of the growing conflicts in his parents' house due to the financial difficulties and the intervention of the mysterious friend, who secretly wooed his mother. His sister, Miri, (Milli Avital), a dull ten year old girl, that was captivated by Schultz "Haunterwaltnik" Pushtek's (Yair Lapid) charm. Additional participants in the film are Oshik Levy, as a taxi driver, a neighbor and friend of Menachem and Rosa Greenberg, Shai Adelson as Haymon's best friend and son of the taxi driver, Sinai Peter as Uncle Lazer from the kibbutz, who represents the Zionist antithesis to Morris' exile and slipperiness. In the end, after a crisis that threatens the world of one of the Greenberg's child, the family decides to stay in Israel.