Moni Moshonov
Shlomo (Moni) Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four. His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market.[1] Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe. After studying drama at Tel Aviv University, he joined the Haifa Theater, remaining with the group for five years.[2] In 1977 he made his first film appearance in Masa Alunkot ("Journey of Stretchers") alongside Gidi Gov.[1] In 1978–98, Moshonov and Shlomo Baraba hosted the satirical TV show Zehu Ze!, first on Israeli Educational Television and then Channel 2. He also appeared in the films The Man Who Flew in to Grab (1981), Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986) and Deadline (1987). During the 1980s he starred in five "Festigal" song festivals, performing children's songs. He also starred in Arik Einstein's children's video Like Grownups in 1991. In 1992 he wrote, produced and starred in the film Cables.[2] He appeared in many theater plays in the Cameri Theater, Habima and the Beit Lessin Theater, as well as several entertainment shows with Baraba.[3] In 2006 he directed Ideal Wedding at Habima and starred in The Goat: or, Who Is Sylvia?.[4][5] In 2000 he starred in Besame Mucho and in Dover Kosashvili's Late Marriage in 2001, for which he won the Israeli Film Academy Award for best supporting actor. In 2002 he starred in Amos Gitai's Kedma. In 2003 he played in Kosashvili's next film Gift from Above, and starred in Year Zero. In 2004 he joined the sketch show Ktsarim on the Channel 2, for which he won an Israeli Film Academy Award for best actor in a comedy series, and in 2007 he hosted the Israeli version of Thank God You're Here on Channel 10. In 2006 he starred in Forgiveness ("Mechilot") and in We Own the Night in 2007. In 2008 he joined the cast of the second season of Betipul,[4] and starred in Two Lovers.[1] Moshonov is married to actress Sandra Sadeh and is the father of opera singer Alma Moshonov and actor Michael Moshonov.[6] He lives in Tel Aviv, near Habima Theater.[7] In 2005, he was voted the 66th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[8] In 2012 he played in Israeli TV Series, "The Gordin Cell" as Peter Yom-Tov, an old Shin-Bet agent, from Bulgaria.
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
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Two Lovers
as Reuben KraditorA depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself...
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
as Old Amos (voice)The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with...
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Late Marriage
as YashaZaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see...
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Every Time We Say Goodbye
as NessimA Protestant World War II pilot and a Jewish girl fall in love in Jerusalem, even though their...
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Hunting Elephants
as NickIn this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank...
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Jaffa
as Reuven WolfIn the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy...
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded
as Old ManMade for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film...
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Deadline
as DonnyAn American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.
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Gift From Above
as GiogyA story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a...
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Legend of Destruction
as Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai (voice)What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned...
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Kedma
as KlibanovIn May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from...
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A Strange Course Of Events
as uncreditedShaul (Uri Pepper), the film’s protagonist, a solitary divorced man, tries to overcome his...
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Hummus Full Trailer
as Solomon SalonikiA satirical crime, comedy of errors that involves three trailers that have been smuggled into...
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Ultimatum
as uncreditedA young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam...
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The Belly Dancer
as Deby's DadDebbie, a young belly dancer, her dangerous yet charming lover, a criminal, and a dance club...
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Year Zero
as EddieThrough a mosaic of stories intertwined and created a current picture of the sad social and...
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Cables
as Cable TechnicianA comedy about changes in the life of Israeli family after they get a cable TV with a lot of...
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The Dune
as FogelThrough the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and...
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Paratroopers
as uncreditedNot everyone is born to be a soldier. Not even in Israel, where universal conscription is the...
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All I Can Do
as uncreditedReut, a young prosecutor, takes over a sexual assault case, based on the sole testimony of Efrat...
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Bulgarian Rhapsody
as MoizThe story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom...
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America
as MotiAn Israeli swimming tutor living in Chicago returns to Israel after 10 years of absence to bury...
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Forgiveness
as JakoovOn April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed...
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Sweets
as uncreditedSalah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab...
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Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive
as Dad (Voice)Ronen Matalon, born and raised in Jerusalem. He start make a tour guide. His tour, called "From...
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Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats
as Shaul CohenWhen Yolanda Moscowitz, a retired French teacher, wakes up in a hospital geriatric ward, she is...
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The End
as uncreditedA short film made for Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded
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Zehu Ze
as HostPlots of the episodes revolved around different subjects related to life in Israel, fashions...
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The Spy
as Jacob ShimoniIn the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a...
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The Jews Are Coming
as uncreditedIsraeli satire show investigating the historical, social and political heritage of the jewish...
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Shorts (Ktzarim)
as uncreditedKtsarim is an Israeli sketch comedy series based on the British comedy show The Sketch Show.
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The Exchange Principle
as GuzmanA police forensics officer, traumatized by the horrors he has seen and processed, leaves his...
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The Gordin Cell
as Peter Yom-TovA married pair of former spies is forced to face their past when asked to surrender their son to...
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Imported
as Meir MeyuhasSigned to play soccer for an English team, Israeli athlete Adir is elated -- until his eccentric...
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