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Page 22 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 19, 1986
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Arts & Entertainment
New film focuses on intermarriage
by Margie Olster
.It A
—NEW YORK
Moshe Mi/rachi has returned
to Israel after a 10-vear hiatus to
write and direct a new film about
a traditional Sephardic family in
Jerusalem facing intermarriage
duringthe British mandate. Mi/-
raehi, the Oscar-winning Israeli
director who has spent the past
10 years making movies in Paris,
based the plot of “Every Time
We Say Goodbye” on a personal
recollection of an event in his
own family.
The film, starring Tom (“No
thing in Common,” “Splash”)
Hanks and Cristina Marshillach,
a well-known Spanish actress,
was filmed entirely in Jerusalem.
Hanks plays an American pilot
in World War II. David Brad
ford. w ho has volunteered for the
British Royal Army and is recov
ering from an injury in Jerusalem
and awaiting further orders.
In the meantime. Hanks' non-
Jewish squadron leader, played
by British actor Benedict Taylor,
plans to wed a young, traditional.
Sephardic Jewish girl, Victoria,
played by Israeli actress Anat
(“Lemon Popsicle”) At/mon.
Victoria introduces her friend
Sarah ( Marsillach) to Da\ id and
the two fall in love against a
“Romeo and Juliet” background.
Sarah must choose between the
love of her closely knit and
staunchly traditional Sephardic
family, and her romantic love
with the non-Jewish soldier.
Producer Sharon Hard, who
also produced “HaL.ahaka” (The
Troupe) and several other Israeli
films, said Mi/rachi came to her
two years ago with his simple but
moving story and she asked him
to write a script based on it. “It
took him 20 years to do it. He
carried the pain in his life of how
this woman was tortured,” Hard
said.
The story is based loosely,
according to Hard, on a similar
drama that happened to one of
Mizrachi’s aunt's who lived in his
family's home when he was a
young boy. Hard would not say
if the movie and the real life event
had the same outcome.
Harel, the daughter of Yossi
Hard, commander of the ship
Exodus, said she was personally
fascinated by the script because
she is the daughter of an Ameri
can mother and an Israeli father.
But beyond that. Harel said the
film tackles a prevalent social
problem during the British man
date that is rele\ant today.
“There were many stories like
that in Israel.” Harel said. “The
whole society was opposed to
intermarriage. Either the family
intervened or the girl moved to
Liverpool. The British culture
was very tempting and very
promising.”
Harel noted that even E/er
Wei/man, a member of the Israeli
Knesset and nephew of Israel's
first president, Chaim Wei/mann,
had a sister who married a Brit
ish non-Jew and moved to Eng
land.
At/mon plays the girl w ho has
defied her family and agreed to
marry the British captain. Dav
id’s friend. Her family disowns
her and she is lonely and depressed
after the marriage.
Even though At/mon comes
from a non-traditional Israeli
family, she said. “It would hurt
mv father a lot if 1 married a
non-Jew. I would have a prob
lem. a problem that exists all
over Israel today.”
The actress won Israel’s ver
sion of the Oscar for best actress
in the movie “Dead End Street,”
in which she played a prostitute
discovered by a television crew
that wants to make a movie about
the rehabilitation of prostitutes.
After rehabilitation, the crew
abandons her and she is left at
the turning point.
At/mon also has starred in
nine other movies including “Diz-
engoff 99,” a film also produced
bv Harel. At 28, Atzmon has
reached the top of Israel’s film
industry and is ready to try to
break into the ultra-comperttive
intecaationalTilm scene.
Marsillach, 23, is like Atzmon
making her international film
debut in “Every Time We Say
Goodbye.” Her parents are two
of the leading theatrical person
alities in Spain. Father, Adolpho
Marsillach, is a playwright, stage
director, actor and director of
the National Classical Theatre of
Spain. Mother, Teresa Del Rio, is
an internationally know n actress.
Marsillach, who is not Jewish,
had never visited Israel prior to
filming the movie. Mi/rachi
coached her in the ways of Se
phardic Jewish families. “1 under
stood immediately because in the
south of Spain, people have the
same traditions, the traditions of
the Catholic religion.” Marsil
lach said.
She said she approached her
role emotionally, not intellectu
ally. Marsillach found Israel to
be friendly and similar to Span
ish culture in many aspects.
“The first shock is that you are
in the Holy Land everything is
mystical.” she said. Marsillach
lived in Jerusalem from last Feb
ruary to April, but said she had
too little time to explore.
Marsillach is now on a scho
larship in New York to study
acting.
The actresses and producers
had only words of praise for
American film star Hanks, who
like Marsillach visited Israel for
the first time during the filming.
They described him as highly
professional and hard working,
charming, witty and anxious to
learn about his role. That interest
landed him a tour of an Israeli
Air Force base with one of the
best imaginable tour guides. Ezer
Weizman, the father of the Israeli
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