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Avanti Popolo (Hebrew: אוונטי פופולו) is a 1986 Israeli drama film directed by Rafi Bukai. [1] The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. [2]
Rafi Bukai was born on 5 January 1957 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was a producer and director, known for Avanti Popolo (1986), Marco Polo: The Missing Chapter (1996) and Different Sky (2006). He died on 9 December 2003 in Israel.
Rafi Bukai (1957-2003) was a film director and producer who was primarily active in Israel during the 1980s and nineties. Whilst getting his degree at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television Studies, Bukai began developing his original graduation project that would later become his debut, feature-length film, Avanti Popolo.
Jun 25, 2012 · Several touching passages from a home video filmed by Bukai Sr. are integrated into the film, and document the little family started by Rafi Bukai and his partner Maayan, in the period preceding his death.
Two Egyptian soldiers (an actor and a peasant in civilian life) are stuck on the wrong side of the Suez Canal following the Egyptian army’s defeat in the Six Day War.
Avanti Popolo: Directed by Rafi Bukai. With Salim Daw, Suhel Haddad, Tuvia Gelber, Danny Segev. On June 11, 1967, the Six-Day War ended and ceasefire began. Egyptian soldiers Gassan and Haled journey through the Sinai desert to reach the Suez Canal, encountering Israeli soldiers and a news reporter.
Jul 11, 2016 · 30 years since it first hit Israeli screens to great fanfare, Rafi Bukai's iconic war comedy 'Avanti Popolo' gets another run.
Sep 15, 2019 · Yael Munk analyzes the Israeli anti-war film, Avanti Popolo (1986), and argues that its director, Rafi Bukaee, focuses on the enemy perspective in order to work through his own perpetrator’s trauma as a reserve soldier.
A newly restored digital copy of Rafi Bukai's 1986 masterpiece. On the last day of the Six Day War, two Egyptian soldiers set out on a surreal journey through the Sinai Desert in an attempt to get back home safely.
Two Egyptian soldiers, Haled (played by noted Palestinian actor Salim Daw) and Gassan (Suhel Hadad), are stranded in the Sinai desert at the end of the Six Day War in 1967. This compelling and comical saga follows these soldiers' attempts to find safety and water.
