Alex Holeh Ahavah
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Alex Holeh Ahavah (Hebrew: אלכס חולה אהבה) is an Israeli cult film of the director Boaz Davidson which was created in 1986.
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[edit] Plot
The movie is a Romantic Comedy which takes place in Israel during the Austerity period of the 1950s. the movies hero is Alex a 13 year old boy which is about to attend his Bar Mitzvah.
Alex has a typical Polish mother and father that suffers quietly. On account of the difficult economic situation they are compelled to share their apartment with a Persian primitive tenant named Faruk that tries to fight his baldness by means of different creams.
Alex falls in love with the new girl in his class, Mimi. Everything changes when his aunt Lola arrives to Israel from the United States to search for lost love from the period she lived in Poland and disappeard when the Nazis tookover the state. Alex falls for his aunt and she on her part gives him more than just maternal love.
The film describes in the exact form the ambience that dominated the country in the 1950s, the Austerity in Israel in these days, the black markets, the radio broadcasts consintarating on the search for lost relatives, music of the 1950s, the clothes and dresses and forms of pastime.
[edit] Cast
- Eitan Anshel - Alexander Koprobski
- Sharon Hacohen - Lola
- Uri Kabiri - Fishenzon
- Avi Kushnir - Motke, Shuki's brother
- Jupiter Leonid - Leonid the teacher
- Avraham Mor - Alex' Dad
- Alik Pelman - Shuki
- Shmuel Rodensky - Alex' Rabbi
- Hana Rot - Alex' Mom (as Hannah Roth)
- Hinna Rozovska - Alexander's Grandmother
- Joseph Shiloach - Faruk
- Yael Wasserman - Mimi
[edit] Alternative Titles
- Alex Is Lovesick (English title)
- Alex in Love
