- Krakow Film Festival
May 25, 2011
- Jewish FF, Berlin
May 31, 2011
The administrator of the mass deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps Adolf Eichmann, was hanged in Israel's first and only execution. Shalom Nagar, a religious Jewish ritual slaughterer and street philosopher who believes in charity, was the hangman.
His life encapsulates the story from the perspective of "the other" the marginalized Sephardi prison warden who was forced to do the dirty work of hanging the arch-enemy, and thus to carry a national burden that dramatically shaped the country, and his life.
Shaloms job as a slaughterer in the abattoir, together with memories of his past, create a complex portrait of character who repeatedly finds himself at the cusp of historical events, yet remains simple and humane, and despite all his personal tragedies maintains his characteristic faith and humor.
Shalom's voice, yet unheard, coming from the edge of Israel's historical events, reveals new insights through a unique perspective. His clear, alternative outlook from the margins of society carries a deeply humanistic universal message.
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- The Hangman - Time Out (Hebrew)
- Israel Film on Blogspot.com - March 2011
- The Hangman - On Israeli Channel 10 - Video (Hebrew)
- The Hangman - Walla (Hebrew)
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Israel_Today_Adi_Robenstein.pdf
Haaretz_Moran_Shrir.pdf
- The Hangman in derSpiegel (German)
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Tel-Fax *972 3 517 1478
47 Eilat Street
Tel Aviv, 66845
Israel
Netalie Braun
Cell: *972 54 422 2578
Email: netalie.b_gmail.com
Avigail Sperber
Cell: *972 52 882 6566
Email: avigail73_gmail.com
Writer / Director / Producer
Netalie Braun, born in Israel in 1978, is a film director of fiction and documentary films, a writer, lecturer in film studies and the artistic codirector of the international womens film festival in Israel. She wrote and directed three short films The Last Supper, 2004, Core, 2005, and Gevald, 2008 and a documentary Metamorphosis, 2006, based on testimonies of raped women. Her poems and short stories have been published in various literary magazines. Her first poetry volume called "Kill and Breathe" came out in 2006. She continues to publish poems and short stories in literature magazines.
Braun has a BA in Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, MA in Film studies, Tel-Aviv University, Theater Directing studies in The Chamber Theater School.
She teaches at Tel-Aviv University, Film Department.
Avigail Sperber, born in Israel in 1973, is a producer, director and cinematographer of fiction and documentary films.
She wrote and directed two short fiction films "Four Entered the Grove" 1998, and HaTikva 2004, and three documentaries "Yan's Tea House", 1998, "My Sister Banchia" 1999, and "Cyprus Meeting" 2001
Sperber filmed over 30 films and TV shows.
She graduated with honors the "Maaleh" Film School in 1998, and the "Idit Shachori" School of Scriptwriting in 2004.
She won many prizes on her films.
Teaching positions
Volunteer
Avigail Sperber Filmography
Cinematographer
The Hangman 2001
Gevald by Netalie Braun 2009
LaShabiya by Yehezkel Lazarov 2009
Two Legacies by Einat kapach 2008
Summer Camp by Yael Bartana 2007
The Stone Flower (Gole Sangam by Sarit Haymian 2007
Metamorphosis by Netalie Braun 2006
My Little Empire by Hana Azoulay-Hasfari 2006
Pickles by Dalit Kimor 2005
Badal by Ibtisam Mra'ane 2005
Salma, beneath two skies by Anca Lazarescu 2005
Keep Not Silent by Ilil Alexander 2004
Created in His Imageby Iris Rubin 2003
Power of Balance by Tom Barkai 2001
Kaddish for Naomi by Avi Hami 2000
Created a Woman by Yaakov Friedlander 1999
Regards from Rhodes by Amit Breuer 1998
Producer
The Hangman 2010
Cyprus Meeting 2001
My Sister Banchia 1999
Director
The Hangman 2010 (Documentary 60 min.)
Halakeh 2008 (Drama 50 min.)
HaTikva 2004 (Experimental 7 min.)
Cyprus Meeting 2001 (Documentary 24 min.)
My Sister Banchia 1999 (Documentary 24 min.)
Yan's Tea House 1998 (Documentary 24 min.)
Four Entered the Grove 1998 (Drama 12 min)
Casting and personal director assistant
Bonfire by Joseph Cider 2004
Avigail Sperber Filmography.docx
Filmography & Trailers
Film Credits
Production: Netalie Braun for Pardes & Avigail Sperber for Pardes
Co-production: Sigal Yehuda
Editing: Joelle Alexis
Sound: Sharon Luzon
Music: Ophir Labovich
Sound Designer: Aviv Aldema
Poster design: Avri Olschwang
The Hangman
The Hangman - On Israeli Channel 10
The Hangman - On Israeli Channel 2
