The House on Chelouche Street
| The House on Chelouche Street | |
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| Directed by | Moshé Mizrahi |
| Written by | Rachel Fabien Yerech Guber Moshé Mizrahi |
| Produced by | Yoram Globus (executive producer) Menahem Golan (producer) |
| Starring | Gila Almagor |
| Cinematography | Adam Greenberg |
| Edited by | Dov Hoenig |
| Music by | Dov Seltzer |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Israel |
| Languages | Hebrew Egyptian Arabic Ladino |
The House on Chelouche Street (Hebrew: הבית ברחוב שלוש, romanized: HaBayit b'Rechov Shalosh) is a 1973 semi-autobiographical film by Israeli director Moshé Mizrahi, who also co-wrote the screenplay. It was filmed in Hebrew, Egyptian Arabic and Judeo-Spanish (a.k.a. Ladino, a Jewish language mostly derived from Old Castilian). The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
This is the first Israeli film whose plot is set during the British Mandate in the land of Israel.
The film is largely based on the personal biography of its creator, Moshe Mizrahi. In 1946, at the age of 15, Mizrahi immigrated to Israel from Alexandria with his widowed mother and younger brother Shabtai. They settled in Jaffa. On July 13, 1948, his nine-year-old brother was killed in an Egyptian bombing of Tel Aviv.