I Like Mike (film)

I Like Mike
Directed by Peter Frye
Produced by Yitzhak Agadati
Mordecai Navon
Ya'akov Shteiner
Written by Peter Frye
Aharon Meged
Starring Batya Lancet
Cinematography Nissim Leon
Edited by Nellie Gilad
Release date
  • 1961 (1961)
Running time
 120 minutes
Country Israel
Language Hebrew

I Like Mike is a 1961 Israeli drama film directed by Canadian-born Peter Frye. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.[1] Based on Aharon Megged play and become an Habima Musical theatre. [2]

Plot

Yafa Arieli wanted to marry her daughter to Mike, a young American visiting in Israel, son of a Texas tycoon, but her daughter Tamara is in love in Micha, a Nahal officer and a poor Kibbutznik. During his flight to Israel, Mike saw in the newspaper a picture of a Yemenite Soldier, fall in love and swore to find her. Mike find the Nili, the Yemenite Soldier, who resides in a Negev Kibbutz and decides to become a Kibbutznik. [3][4]

Cast

  • Batya Lancet - The mother, Yafa Arieli
  • Gideon Singer
  • Ze'ev Berlinsky
  • Ilana Rovina - The daughter, Tamar
  • Meira Shor
  • Seymour Gitin - Mike (Michael Abrahams), an American tourist
  • Topol
  • Geula Nuni
  • Avner Hizkiyahu
  • Eitan Gitin
  • Bernie Rachelle - Arik (with Topol)

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: I Like Mike". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 21 February 2009.
  2. ↑ I Like Mike in Habima, Davar, September 21, 1956
  3. ↑ Meir Schnitzer, Israeli Cinema: Facts/ Plots/ Directors / Opinions, Kinneret Publishing House, 1994. P. 52.
  4. ↑ Amy Kornish and Costel Safirman, Israeli Film – A Reference Guide, Praeger, 2003, p. 81.
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