I Like Mike (film)

I Like Mike is a 1961 Israeli drama film directed by Canadian-born Peter Frye. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.[1] Based on Aharon Megged play and become an Habima Musical theatre. [2]

I Like Mike
Directed byPeter Frye
Produced byYitzhak Agadati
Mordecai Navon
Ya'akov Shteiner
Written byPeter Frye
Aharon Meged
StarringBatya Lancet
CinematographyNissim Leon
Edited byNellie Gilad
Release date
  • 1961 (1961)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguageHebrew

Plot

Yafa Arieli wanted to marry her daughter to Mike, a young American visiting in Israel, son of a Texas tycoon, but her daughter Tamara is in love with Micha, a Nahal officer and a poor Kibbutznik. During his flight to Israel, Mike saw in the newspaper a picture of a Yemenite Soldier, fell in love and swore to find her. Eventually, Mike finds Nilli, the Yemenite Soldier who lives in a Kibbutz in the Negev region, and decides to become a Kibbutznik.[3][4]

Cast

  • Batya Lancet as The mother, Yafa Arieli
  • Gideon Singer
  • Ze'ev Berlinsky
  • Ilana Rovina as The daughter, Tamar
  • Meira Shor
  • Seymour Gitin as Mike (Michael Abrahams), an American tourist
  • Topol
  • Geula Nuni
  • Avner Hizkiyahu
  • Eitan Gitin
  • Bernie Rachelle as Arik (with Topol)
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References

  1. "Festival de Cannes: I Like Mike". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 21 February 2009.
  2. I Like Mike in Habima, Davar, September 21, 1956
  3. Meir Schnitzer, Israeli Cinema: Facts/ Plots/ Directors / Opinions, Kinneret Publishing House, 1994. P. 52.
  4. Amy Kornish and Costel Safirman, Israeli Film – A Reference Guide, Praeger, 2003, p. 81.


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