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Sallah Shabati
Directed byEphraim Kishon
Produced byMenahem Golan
StarringChaim Topol
Release dates
 Israel June 1964
 USA March 10 1965
Running time
110 minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguageHebrew

Sallah Shabati (Hebrew: סאלח שבתי) is a motion picture comedy about the chaos of Israeli immigration and resettlement that introduced actor Chaim Topol (Fiddler on the Roof) to audiences worldwide. This social satire placed the director Ephraim Kishon and producer Menahem Golan among the first Israeli filmmakers to achieve international success.

The name Sallah Shabati is a pun, it is an Arab name but sounds like "Forgive me for coming" in Hebrew.

This film was nominated for a 1964 Academy Award in the category of Best Foreign Language Film, a first for an Israeli production, but it lost the Oscar to the Italian film, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

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