Estonian premiere
Big Eyes
Basketball coach Benny Furman (Uri Zohar) has it all, but he is insatiable and gets tangled up in complicated situations with his wife, with the other women in his life, and with his best friend (Arik Einstein).
The Tel Aviv-born actor and director Uri Zohar (1935-2022) was known for his outsized personality and wavy, shoulder-length hair, and most of all for his 1960s bourekas films. These were heavily slapstick movies that poked fun at nearly anything Israeli, and in particular, the treatment of new immigrants to Israel.
He directed and starred in “Hole in the Moon,” “Three Days and a Child,” “Every Bastard a King,” “Big Eyes” and “Peeping Toms” (“Metzitzim”).
This masterpiece by Uri Zohar shows the first signs of the director's self-critique about his lifestyle that is ultimately destined, in later years, for a deep change. A new and restored copy.
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