Ze'ev Revach

Ze'ev Nachum Revach (Hebrew: זאב רווח‎; born 15 August 1940) is an Israeli comedian, film and theatre actor, and filmmaker. He has been one of stars of the Israeli film genre known as Bourekas films.

Ze'ev Revach
Born
Ze'ev Nachum Revach

(1940-08-15) 15 August 1940
Rabat, Morocco
NationalityIsraeli
EducationBeit Zvi
OccupationComedian, movie actor, and director
Awards2000 Israeli Film Academy best actor award

Israeli newspaper Haaretz described Revach's films as a "peculiarly Israeli genre of comic melodramas or tearjerkers... based on ethnic stereotypes that flourished [in Israel] in the 1960s and 1970s."[1]

Some of his films, notably Hasamba, Hagiga B'Snuker, and Charlie Ve'hetzi developed a local cult following.[2]

Early life

Revach was born in Morocco, to a family of Sephardic Jewish descent. He immigrated with his family to Israel in 1948, at the age of eight. Revach served as a combat soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, prior to his acting career in Tel Aviv.[3] He studied at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts.[2]

Accolades

In 2000, Revach won the Israeli Film Academy's best actor award for his role as Shabtai Kassodas in Beitar Provence.[4]

Revach was honored at the Cinema South festival held in Sderot in May 2010. The festival organizers, explaining their decision, said that "a renewed look at his movies shows that they are critical, subversive, Israeli and Mediterranean texts, both in form and in content."[2]

Filmography

References
  1. Klein, Uri (16 December 2008). "And then there was one – Haaretz – Israel News". Haaretz. Tel Aviv, Israel: Schocken. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
  2. Cinema festival to recognize Ze'ev Revach, Haaretz
  3. "Ze'ev Revach bio" (PDF). Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  4. Ze'ev Revach – awards
  5. https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2d15030
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