Amos Gitai

Amos Gitaï, born in Haifa in 1950, the son of the architect Munio Weinraub, who trained at the Bauhaus, began studying architecture at the Technion. During the 1973 war, he was wounded when the rescue helicopter he was in was hit by a Syrian missile; he was already filming in Super 8. A doctor of architecture from Berkeley, he made his first documentaries, lived in Paris for about ten years after two of them were censored, and has made more than ninety films, plays and installations. He has directed Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Binoche and Natalie Portman.

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• CinemaKadoshקדושAmos Gitai · 1999Cinema