Background and career
Moshé Mizrahi (Hebrew: משה מזרחי; 5 September 1931 – 3 August 2018) was an Israeli film director. His accolades include an Academy Award, an Ophir Award and two awards from the Berlin International Film Festival, as well. He also received two further Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nomination and two nominations from the Cannes Film Festival.
He made his feature film directorial debut with The Customer of the Off Season (1970). He followed up with I Love You Rosa (1972) and The House on Chelouche Street (1973), with both films receiving nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He later won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Madame Rosa (1977), based on the novel, The Life Before Us by Romain Gary.
He later directed the American films, War and Love (1985), a Holocaust film, followed by the Jerusalem-set Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986), with Tom Hanks. His final film was A Weekend in the Galilee (2007).
In 2001, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Ophir Award.
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