Cinema
Shuroo
שורו
Savi Gabizon · 1990
Synopsis
Tel Aviv, in the world of well-off people in their thirties. Asher Yeshurun, a failed businessman, unscrupulous but charismatic, is trying to sell the book he has written. After an appearance on a television programme, a small group forms around him and takes him for a spiritual guide: a sect of admirers who learn his doctrine by heart. Between his wife Shimrit, his mistress, the disciples and a pub where everyone crosses paths, betrayals, secrets and love affairs intertwine.
Context
The screenplay was written with Yonatan Aroch, who produced the film with Yohanan Raviv. Moshe Ivgi plays Asher, Keren Mor his wife, and Eran Tzur, whose songs form the music, appears as an advertising singer. At the first Ophir Awards ceremony, the film received those for best film, direction, screenplay and actor, then the Wolgin Prize at the Jerusalem festival; it was released in cinemas in December 1990. The Book of Israeli Cinema places it in the Tel Aviv wave of the early nineties, urban and nocturnal films centred on solitary characters.
Who it is for
One hour twenty-five minutes, in Hebrew. It helps to know the language of self-help manuals, which the film parodies.
Prizes and reception
Several Ophir Awards and the Wolgin Prize; Moshe Ivgi also awarded at the Haifa festival; submitted by Israel for the Oscar for best foreign film.
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