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Amos Gitai

Director

Films

Day After Day

Day After Day

By Amos Gitai

1998 | 102 min | Comedy

In Haifa, Moshe's tragicomic adventures outline the life of a Jewish-Arab family.

Berlin-Jerusalem

Berlin-Jerusalem

By Amos Gitai

1989 | 99 min | Drama

Before the war, Else, a poet in Berlin, meets Tania, an activist on her way to Jerusalem. Together, they set out to realize their dreams.

House

House

By Amos Gitai

1980 | 51 min | Documentary

House is the story of a house in West-Jerusalem: abandoned during the 1948 war by its owner, a Palestinian doctor; requisitioned by the Israeli government as "vacant'; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; purchased by a university professor who undertakes its transformation into a patrician villa... The building site is like a theatre in which the former inhabitants, the neighbours, the workers, the builder and the new owner all appear. Israeli television censured the film. "Gitai wants ...

Kadosh

Kadosh

By Amos Gitai

1999 | 110 min | Drama

Two sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society.

Kippur

Kippur

By Amos Gitai

2000 | 124 min | Drama

In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, Weinraub and Rousso joined a rescue unit after searching for their former unit in the Golan Heights.

Things

Things

By Amos Gitai

1995 | 110 min | Drama

Caesar and Israel want to go to the funeral of their friend Goldman's father, but don't know which cemetery to go to.

Esther

Esther

By Amos Gitai

1986 | 97 min | Drama

In “Esther”, the queen saves her people from Haman, an anti-Jewish plot, leading to a tragic ending celebrated at Purim.