Estonian premiere

Big Eyes

Local title
Suured silmad
Original title
Einayim G'dolot
Director
Uri Zohar
Country
Israel
Year
1974
Programme
In Focus: Israel
Genre
drama
Subject
interpersonal relationships, sport

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.

Director
Uri Zohar
Screenwriter
Yaakov Shabtai, Uri Zohar
Cast
Uri Zohar, Arik Einstein, Elia Zohar, Tzvi Shissel, Talia Shapira
Producer
Yoram Ben-Ami, Itzik Kol
DoP
David Gurfinkel
Editor
Anna Gurit
Composer
Miki Gabrielov
Production
United Studios, Herzliyah
Distributor
Israel Film Fund
Runtime
Language
Hebrew
Subtitles
English

Screenings

Hall 2 Kino Artis
Screening101606 / Suured silmad
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration