Shimon Dotan

Shimon Dotan, born in Romania in 1949, arrived in Israel as a child and grew up at the moshav Arugot. He served five years in the naval commando, then studied cinema in the first class of the department at Tel Aviv University. His second feature film, adapted from David Grossman, won its lead actor the Silver Bear in Berlin in 1986. He then left for Los Angeles and then Montreal, made action films, and moved to documentary, with a film on security prisoners that won a prize at Sundance, then another on the settlers. He teaches cinema at New York University.

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• CinemaRepeat Diveצלילה חוזרתShimon Dotan · 1982Cinema