Bread (1986 film) explained
Bread |
Native Name: | Hebrew: לחם |
Director: | Ram Loevy |
Distributor: | Shuval Films |
Runtime: | 84 minutes |
Country: | Israel |
Language: | Hebrew |
Bread (Hebrew: לחם, tr. Lehem) is an 84-minute 1986 Israeli Hebrew-language Prix Italia-winning independent underground dramatic television art film directed by Ram Loevy and cowritten with and Meir Doron.
Synopsis
The film follows Shlomo Elmaliach, who loses his job at his town's local bakery when it is forced to close. Rather than join the other unemployed protesters, Elmaliach locks himself in his own home and launches a very personal hunger strike. At first, people come to visit him at his home, and there is even a rumor that television reporters might show up (quickly dismissed by Elmaliach's friend Zaguri, played by, who states that “they only come when there is a ruckus”). Gradually, even Elmaliach's own friends abandon him, and he ends up dragging his own family down with him. A son, Baruch (Moshe Ivgy), seeks radical solutions to poverty, while a daughter, Navah (Etti Ankri, who also sings), who has escaped to Tel Aviv-Yafo to study, returns to her home and takes on a job on a production line, and Elmaliach's wife, Mazal, takes on a job as a seamstress. At the end of the film, the factory is reopened as a result of all of the protests, however, by then it is too late for Shlomo Elmaliach. The film was produced by the Israel Broadcasting Authority, was broadcast on Channel 1, features music composed by Nahum Nardi to lyrics written by Nathan Alterman (plus the 1984 song I Just Called to Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder), and stars inter alia Shmil Ben Ari,,, and .[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
Reception
The journalist has compared the film to the works of Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, and Michelangelo Antonioni and has opined that it “is still very powerful, and it seems as relevant today as it was on the day it was first aired.”[15] All five films were released in Israel as part of a limited edition DVD boxset in 2009.[16]
External links
Notes and References
- . Web site: https://www.ictd.co.il/%D7%A8%D7%9D-%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%99/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA . he:רם לוי. Ram Loevy. 20 February 2013. Israeli Cinema Testimonial Database . he . 22 September 2018.
- Schenker . Guilhad Emilio . Guilhad Emilio Schenker . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeCg3beIcY . he:חי בסרט – רם לוי . Living in Films – Ram Loevy . Jerusalem . . he . 22 September 2018 . 25 February 2016 . YouTube.
- Book: Kronish . Amy W. . Safirman . Costel . 2003 . Israeli Film: A Reference Guide . Westport, Connecticut and London . Praeger . 40–41, 224 . 9780313321443 . 845524002.
- Book: Ne'eman, Judd . Leaman . Oliver Norbert Harold . Israeli Cinema . 2001 . Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film . registration . London and New York . . 231, 281, 285–286, 325, 339 . 9781134662517 . Oliver Leaman . 45466264.
- Book: Bread . A Guide to Films Featured in the Jewish Film Festival . Kaufman . Deborah . Plotkin . Janis . Orenstein . Rena . 1991 . Jewish Film Festival . Berkeley, California . 24 September 2018 . 25527469. 16. Reprinted in: Book: Independent Jewish Film: A Resource Guide . Plotkin . Janis . Libresco . Caroline . Feiger . Josh . 1996 . . San Francisco . 36119531 . 49 . 9780965068802 . 3rd.
- Book: Kronish, Amy W. . 1996 . World Cinema: Israel . Flicks Books . 144, 177, 203 . 9780948911705 . 568122092.
- . News: he:רטרוספקטיווה לבמאי רם לוי לכבוד 20 שנה ללחם . A Retrospective in Honor of the Director Ram Loevy Honoring Twenty Years of Bread . 28 December 2015 . https://www.haaretz.co.il/1.1070280 . he . . 22 September 2018 . פינטו . גואל .
- Levy . Maya . he:תוגת הישראליות . The Melancholia of Israeliness . 15 October 2009 . https://atmag.co.il/%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%99/%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%92%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA . he . At Magazine.
- News: Offek . Assa . Kedar . Eran . 24 September 2012 . he:מחלקים דיוידנדים: חשבון הנפש שלכם מול המסך . Disseminating Dividends: Your Moral Reckoning vis-à-vis the Screen . https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4284925,00.html . he . . 22 September 2018.
- News: Ziv . Nevo . 15 December 2015 . he:בקול רם . In a Mighty Voice . https://www.yediot.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4739654,00.html . he . Yedioth Ahronoth.
- . Book: 1991 . he:הסרט העברי – פרקים בתולדות הראינוע והקולנוע בישראל: 1896–1991 . The Hebrew Film – Chapters in the Annals of Silent and Sound Cinema in Israel: 1896–1991 . 374, 420, 454, 462, 464 . Jerusalem . he . Natan and Yaacov Gross . 27221790 . https://google.com/books?id=muosAAAAIAAJ . 23 September 2018.
- News: Bread – A Television Drama . 1987 . New Outlook . 30 . Tel Aviv-Yafo . 23 September 2018 . . 46.
- News: Bread . September 1995 . Fischer Film Almanach 1995: Filme, Festivals, Tendenzen, mit TV- und Video-Erstaufführungen . Stuttgart und Frankfurt am Main . 23 September 2018 . 832650440 . 9783596127627 . . de . Schäfer . Horst . Schobert . Walter.
- . Book: 1994 . he:הקולנוע הישראלי: כל העובדות, כל העלילות, כל הבמאים וגם ביקורות . Israeli Cinema: All Facts, All Plots, All Directors, and All Critiques . 28 . Or Yehuda and Jerusalem . he . Kinneret Zmora-Bitan . 9789652863782 . 31817606 . https://books.google.com/books?id=8coqAQAAIAAJ . 6 October 2018.
- News: 8 August 2009 . Not By Bread Alone . Klein . Uri . Haaretz . 22 September 2018. Hebrew original: News: 30 July 2009 . he:לא על לחם לבדו . Not By Bread Alone . Klein . Uri . https://www.haaretz.co.il/1.3340140 . Haaretz . 23 September 2018 . he.
- he:5 סרטים של רם לוי . 5 Films By Ram Loevy . Loevy . Ram . Ramat HaSharon and Jerusalem . Globus United King Films . Hebrew . DVD . 2009 . 664665925. Reported in: News: he:חדש בדי.וי.די: מארז סרטיו של רם לוי . New on DVD: A Ram Loevy Films Boxset . 14 July 2009 . https://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/online/47/ART1/916/528.html . he . Maariv . 22 September 2018. News: Schiff . Einav . he:מארז מהודר לסרטיו של הבמאי רם לוי . An Exclusive Boxset of the Films By the Director Ram Loevy . 13 July 2009 . https://e.walla.co.il/item/1519062 . he . Walla! News . 22 September 2018. News: Tessler . Yitzhak . he:שמאל טוק . Leftist Talk . 9 September 2009 . https://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/online/47/ART1/939/676.html . he . Maariv . 22 September 2018. . Web site: Offek . Assa . 13 August 2009 . he:רם ונישא . High and Mighty . http://www.third-ear.com/Article/962 . he . Third Ear . 22 September 2018.