I Like Mike (film)
Appearance
I Like Mike | |
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Directed by | Peter Frye |
Written by | Peter Frye Aharon Meged |
Produced by | Yitzhak Agadati Mordecai Navon Ya'akov Shteiner |
Starring | Batya Lancet |
Cinematography | Nissim Leon |
Edited by | Nellie Gilad |
Release date |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
Country | Israel |
Language | Hebrew |
I Like Mike is a 1961 Israeli drama film directed by Canadian-born Peter Frye. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.[1] Based on Aharon Megged play and become an Habima Musical theatre. [2]
Plot
Yafa Arieli wanted to marry her daughter to Mike, a young American visiting in Israel, son of a Texas tycoon, but her daughter Tamara is in love with Micha, a Nahal officer and a poor Kibbutznik. During his flight to Israel, Mike saw in the newspaper a picture of a Yemenite Soldier, fell in love and swore to find her. Eventually, Mike finds Nilli, the Yemenite Soldier who lives in a Kibbutz in the Negev region, and decides to become a Kibbutznik.[3][4]
Cast
- Batya Lancet as The mother, Yafa Arieli
- Gideon Singer
- Ze'ev Berlinsky
- Ilana Rovina as The daughter, Tamar
- Meira Shor
- Seymour Gitin as Mike (Michael Abrahams), an American tourist
- Topol
- Geula Nuni
- Avner Hizkiyahu
- Eitan Gitin
- Bernie Rachelle as Arik (with Topol)
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: I Like Mike". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 21 February 2009.
- ^ I Like Mike in Habima, Davar, September 21, 1956
- ^ Meir Schnitzer, Israeli Cinema: Facts/ Plots/ Directors / Opinions, Kinneret Publishing House, 1994. P. 52.
- ^ Amy Kornish and Costel Safirman, Israeli Film – A Reference Guide, Praeger, 2003, p. 81.
External links
- I Like Mike at IMDb