Sasson Gabai
Date of birth: 1947-11-24
Place of birth: Baghdad, Iraq
Known for: Acting
Also known as: ששון גבאי, Sasson Gabai
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sasson Gabai (also Sasson Gabay) - is an Israeli actor, Jewish and originally from Iraq. He works in Israeli cinema. He has won Award of the Israeli Film Academy, Asia Pacific Screen Award, European Film Awards and Jerusalem Film Festival in 2007 as Best Actor in a highly acclaimed Israeli film "The Band's Visit". He is leading and prolific actors in Israel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sasson Gabai , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Rambo III
1988-05-24
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When
The Band's Visit
2007-09-13
A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts cen
Made in Israel
2001-09-27
Two pairs of assassins are sent by a holocaust survivor's son to bring the last Nazi for a show tria
Aviva, My Love
2006-07-27
Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of
Deadline
1987-07-02
An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.
Black Notebooks
2021-07-07
With this two-part feature documentary, Shlomi Elkabetz shares a poignant love letter to his sister,
The Impossible Spy
1987-11-28
This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Ag
Year Zero
2004-06-06
Through a mosaic of stories intertwined and created a current picture of the sad social and economic
When Pigs Have Wings
2011-09-21
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a po
Restoration
2011-08-25
A drama about a family's effort to save their antique restoration business.
Blink of an Eye
1992-08-26
An agent with psychic powers comes to the rescue of the kidnapped daughter of the CIA director.
The Order
2001-05-05
When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he
Karaoke
2022-09-29
Meir (Sasson Gabay of The Band’s Visit and Shtisel) and Tova (Rita Shukrun) are a long-married coupl
Hunting Elephants
2013-07-03
In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery i
The Quarry
1990-06-06
Israel, Fifties... Two men are fighting for the love of one woman in the quarry.
Steal the Sky
1988-08-26
An Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.
Kidon
2013-08-24
"Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
2014-06-25
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only lega
Hello Goodbye
2008-11-26
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian co
Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol
2000-10-05
An elite commando unit must rescue a captured peacekeeping force from a ruthless international arms
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990-11-26
Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland
The Kind Words
2015-05-28
Follows three brothers who are going to discover the greatest secret of their late mother. This trip
Bliss
2024-06-06
Sassi is more than 20 years older than his wife Effi and is worried about his declining powers. Surg
Il était une fois... « Le procès de Viviane Amsalem »
2016-11-29
The final part of a family trilogy by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz. It follows Viviane Amsalem's grueli
The Angel
2018-05-15
True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant
Escape: Human Cargo
1998-03-22
An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influen
The Other Story
2018-10-25
Two rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts
The Patriots
1994-05-18
Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent
A Brother’s Love
2019-06-07
Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brothe
Abu Eli
2019-06-23
The friendship between Avi, a former drug addict, and Jaber, a Sudanese refugee, is in danger. It is
Oslo
2021-05-29
The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely
Not Without My Daughter
1991-01-11
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with he
The Ambassador
1985-01-11
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventi
Where Life Begins
2022-06-16
An ultra-orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in southern Italy for a brief sta
My Daughter My Love
2023-07-18
Shimon, a 70-year-old widower, travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daugh
Antigone
2024-07-29
There was war, as always. A war of brothers. Now it's over. The time has come to praise the fallen a
Scar
1995-01-02
Scar holds a special place in the development and oeuvre of Ronit Elkabetz: it’s her first work as a