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Sasson Gabai

Date of birth: 1947-11-24

Place of birth: Baghdad, Iraq

Known for: Acting

Also known as: ששון גבאי, Sasson Gabai

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
3.1

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
3.5

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
3.3

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
3

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
2.3

Deadline

1987-07-02

An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.

Black Notebooks
3.2

Black Notebooks

2021-07-07

With this two-part feature documentary, Shlomi Elkabetz shares a poignant love letter to his sister,

The Impossible Spy
2.5

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
3.3

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
3.5

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
3

Restoration

2011-08-25

A drama about a family's effort to save their antique restoration business.

Blink of an Eye
0.5

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
2.5

The Order

2001-05-05

When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he

Karaoke
3.4

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
3

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
4

The Quarry

1990-06-06

Israel, Fifties... Two men are fighting for the love of one woman in the quarry.

Steal the Sky
1.8

Steal the Sky

1988-08-26

An Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.

Kidon
2.5

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
3.8

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
2.9

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
2.5

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
3.3

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
3.2

The Kind Words

2015-05-28

Follows three brothers who are going to discover the greatest secret of their late mother. This trip

Bliss
4.3

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 »
0

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
3.3

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
2.7

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
3.3

The Other Story

2018-10-25

Two rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts

The Patriots
3.3

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
3.3

A Brother’s Love

2019-06-07

Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brothe

Abu Eli
0

Abu Eli

2019-06-23

The friendship between Avi, a former drug addict, and Jaber, a Sudanese refugee, is in danger. It is

Oslo
3.3

Oslo

2021-05-29

The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely

Not Without My Daughter
3.3

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
2.5

The Ambassador

1985-01-11

An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventi

Where Life Begins
2.7

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
3.5

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
0

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
2.5

Scar

1995-01-02

Scar holds a special place in the development and oeuvre of Ronit Elkabetz: it’s her first work as a