Blaumilch Canal, the Glossary
Blaumilch Canal (international release title: The Big Dig) is a 1969 Israeli comedy satire written and directed by Ephraim Kishon, depicting the madness of bureaucracy through a municipality's reaction to the actions of a lunatic.[1]
Table of Contents
20 relations: Allenby Street, Ben Yehuda Street (Tel Aviv), Bomba Tzur, Ephraim Kishon, German language, Gideon Singer, Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Hebrew language, Israel, Jackhammer, Lunatic asylum, Mediterranean Sea, Mosko Alkalai, Paul L. Smith, Rabin Square, Satire, Shaike Ophir, Tel Aviv, The Jerusalem Post, Venice.
- 1960s Hebrew-language films
- Films directed by Ephraim Kishon
- Films set in Tel Aviv
- Israeli comedy films
- Israeli satirical films
Allenby Street
Allenby Street (Rekhóv Álenbi) is a major street in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Ben Yehuda Street (Tel Aviv)
Ben Yehuda Street is a street in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Bomba Tzur
Yosef "Bomba" Tzur (né Yosef Welzer; 26 December 1928 – 21 March 1979) was an Israeli theatre and film actor, screenwriter, producer, and comedian.
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Ephraim Kishon
Ephraim Kishon (August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005) was a Hungarian-born Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Gideon Singer
Gideon Singer (גדעון זינגר; June 29, 1926 – May 11, 2015) was an Israeli actor and singer.
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Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to reward theatrically-released feature film not in the English language.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
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Jackhammer
A jackhammer (pneumatic drill or demolition hammer in British English) is a pneumatic or electro-mechanical tool that combines a hammer directly with a chisel.
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Lunatic asylum
The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Mosko Alkalai
Mosko Alkalai (מוסקו אלקלעי; March 10, 1931 – April 1, 2008) was an Israeli actor.
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Paul L. Smith
Paul Lawrence Smith (June 24, 1936 – April 25, 2012) was an American-Israeli actor and director.
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Rabin Square
Rabin Square (translit), formerly Kings of Israel Square (translit), is a main large public city square in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Shaike Ophir
Shaike Ophir (שייקה אופיר; November 4, 1928 – August 17, 1987) was an Israeli film and theater actor, comedian, playwright, screenwriter, director, and the country's first mime.
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Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.
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The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.
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Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
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See also
1960s Hebrew-language films
- A Woman's Case
- Blaumilch Canal
- El Dorado (1963 film)
- Every Bastard a King
- Fortuna (film)
- He Walked Through the Fields
- Hole in the Moon
- I Like Mike (film)
- In Jerusalem
- Matzor
- Sallah Shabati
- Tevye and His Seven Daughters
- The Boy Across the Street
- The Flying Matchmaker
- The Glass Cage (1965 film)
- Three Days and a Child
Films directed by Ephraim Kishon
- Blaumilch Canal
- Ervinka
- Sallah Shabati
- The Fox in the Chicken Coop
- The Policeman
Films set in Tel Aviv
- 11′09″01 September 11
- A Woman's Case
- Alex Holeh Ahavah
- Alila (film)
- America (2022 film)
- Bar 51
- Blaumilch Canal
- Crescendo (2019 film)
- Damascus Cover
- Deadly Outbreak
- Desperado Square
- Dizengoff 99
- Down There (film)
- Drive (2019 film)
- Fifty-Fifty (1971 film)
- Fill the Void
- Foxtrot (2017 film)
- Going Steady (1979 film)
- In Between (2016 film)
- Japan Japan
- Late Summer Blues
- Lemon Popsicle
- Life According to Agfa
- Lupo!
- Metzitzim
- Oriented (film)
- Say Amen
- Shoshana (film)
- Summertime Blues (1984 film)
- The Belle from Gaza
- The Contract (1971 film)
- The House on Chelouche Street
- The Man in the Wall (film)
- The Point Men (2001 film)
- The Road to Where
- The Soldier (1982 film)
- The Thin Line (1980 film)
- Traduire
- Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land
- Urban Feel
- Waltz with Bashir
- Wisdom of the Pretzel
- Would You Have Sex with an Arab?
- Yana's Friends
Israeli comedy films
- A Matter of Size
- Afterthought (film)
- Alex Holeh Ahavah
- Aliza Mizrahi
- Ben's Biography
- Blaumilch Canal
- Charlie Ve'hetzi
- Dalia and the Sailors
- Ervinka
- Fifty-Fifty (1971 film)
- Five Hours from Paris
- Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona
- Hagiga B'Snuker
- Impossible on Saturday
- Kicking Out Shoshana
- Maktub (2017 film)
- Metzitzim
- Mivtza Savta
- One Pound Only
- Sallah Shabati
- The Contract (1971 film)
- The Fox in the Chicken Coop
- The Lookout (1990 film)
- The Women's Balcony
- Wisdom of the Pretzel
- Wonderland (2013 film)
- Zohi Sdom
Israeli satirical films
- Blaumilch Canal
- Hole in the Moon
- Mivtza Savta
- Sallah Shabati
- Stalin's Disciples
- Sweet Mud
- Tel Aviv on Fire
- The Fox in the Chicken Coop
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaumilch_Canal
Also known as The Big Dig (film).