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Filmmaker · Israel

Moshé Mizrahi

Died in 2018

Moshé Mizrahi, born in Alexandria in 1931, grew up there in a French-speaking Mediterranean culture and emigrated in 1946 with his widowed mother and his younger brother; the family settled in Jaffa. Raised in a youth group of kibbutz Maabarot, he lost his brother in 1948 to an Egyptian bombardment. A film translator, he left to study cinema in France, where he stayed. He made films in France and in Israel, and one of them, based on a novel by Émile Ajar and starring Simone Signoret, received the Oscar for best foreign film for 1977. Awarded the Ophir Prize for his entire body of work in 2001, he died in Tel Aviv in 2018.

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