Name Uri Barbash Role Film director | Education London Film School Siblings Benny Barbash | |
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Nominations Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Movies and TV shows Beyond the Walls, Spring 1941, One of Us, Unsettled Land, Tironoot Similar People Motti Lerner, Ida Fink, Assi Dayan, Mohammad Bakri, Amos Lavi | ||
SERET 2016 Kapo in jerusalem Director: Uri Barbash
Uri Barbash (Hebrew: אורי ברבש) (born December 24, 1946) is an Israeli film director.
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He directed and co-wrote (with Eran Preis) Beyond the Walls (1984), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is about an overcrowded prison where Jewish and Arab inmates set aside their prejudices and unite in a daring escape plan.
His film Echad Mishelanu (One of Us) (1989) is an Israeli drama about a military policeman sent to investigate his former comrades in an elite paratroop unit charged with the murder of an Arab who killed a member of the unit. The screenplay was written by the director's brother, Benny Barbash, a peace activist and playwright.
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