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Ze'ev Revach

Ze'ev Nachum Revach (Hebrew: זאב רווח; born 15 August 1940) is an Israeli comedian, film and theatre actor, and filmmaker. He has been one of the stars of the Israeli film genre known as Bourekas films.

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Israeli newspaper Haaretz described Revach's films as a "peculiarly Israeli genre of comic melodramas or tearjerkers... based on ethnic stereotypes that flourished [in Israel] in the 1960s and 1970s."[1]

Some of his films, notably Hasamba, Hagiga B'Snuker, and Charlie Ve'hetzi developed a local cult following.[2]

Early life

Revach was born in Morocco, to a family of Moroccan Jewish descent. He immigrated with his family to Israel in 1948, at the age of eight. Revach served as a combat soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, prior to his acting career in Tel Aviv.[3] He studied at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts.[2]

Accolades

In 2000, Revach won the Israeli Film Academy's best actor award for his role as Shabtai Kassodas in Beitar Provence.[4]

Revach was honored at the Cinema South festival held in Sderot in May 2010. The festival organizers, explaining their decision, said that "a renewed look at his movies shows that they are critical, subversive, Israeli and Mediterranean texts, both in form and in content."[2]

Personal life

Revach was married to the actress Shula Raviv. Today he is married to Meli and lives with his family in Ramat Gan. He is the father of five children.[5]

His younger brother Uri was formerly a singer. Before he became religiously observant, he sang the theme songs in his brother's films Charlie Ve'hetzi and "Just Today".

Filmography


References

  1. Klein, Uri (16 December 2008). "And then there was one – Haaretz – Israel News". Haaretz. Tel Aviv, Israel: Schocken. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
  2. "Ze'ev Revach bio" (PDF). Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  3. "מיאו, זאב". ynet (in Hebrew). 20 June 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  4. "Zeev Revah". Archived from the original on 6 March 2021.

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