Amos Gitai (French: Amos Gitaï, Hebrew: עמוס גיתאי), born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an acclaimed filmmaker in Israel and worldwide, with major retrospectives to his works at Centre Georges Pompidou, MoMA, Lincoln Center New-York, British Film Institute and others, with substantial body of work of more than 40 films, fiction and documentaries which had been widely distributed. Between 1999 and 2011 seven of his films entered the Cannes Film Festival for the Golden Palm Award, as well as the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion award.
[>>]Source: WikipediaAmos Gitai (French: Amos Gitaï, Hebrew: עמוס גיתאי), born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an acclaimed filmmaker in Israel and worldwide, with major retrospectives to his works at Centre Georges Pompidou, MoMA, Lincoln Center New-York, British Film Institute and others, with substantial body of work of more than 40 films, fiction and documentaries which had been widely distributed. Between 1999 and 2011 seven of his films entered the Cannes Film Festival for the Golden Palm Award, as well as the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion award.
Throughout the years Gitai collaborated with Juliette Binoche, Jeanne Moreau, Natalie Portman, Yael Abecassis, Samuel Fuller, Barbara Hendricks, Léa Seydoux, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Simon Stockhausen, Markus Stockhausen, Henri Alekan, Renato Berta, Eric Gautier and others.
Biography
Gitai was born in 1950 in Haifa to Munio Weinraub and Efratia Margalit. His father was an architect of the pre-war Bauhaus movement in Germany. His parents changed the family name to Gitai. Amos holds a degree in architecture from the Technion in Haifa and a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.
The 1973 Yom Kippur War interrupted his architecture studies as he was called up to reserve service as part of a helicopter rescue crew. While serving, he shot 8mm footage of the fighting, claiming this served as his entry into the world of film making. On his birthday, Gitai's helicopter was shot down by a Syrian missile on the Golan Heights. This experience had a great effect on his life and forms the basis of his film Kippur, an autobiographical depiction of his war service.
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