Big Tuna
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| Big Tuna | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Shaul Betser |
| Produced by | Galit Benglas and Edo Zuckerman |
| Written by | Roy Arad, Erez Heiman and Shaul Betser |
| Starring | Zadok Savir Joshua Simon |
| Cinematography | Boaz Yaakov |
| Editing by | Zachi Klein |
| Release date(s) | 2004 |
| Running time | 57 min |
| Language | Hebrew, English Subtitle |
| Budget | 60000 |
| IMDb profile | |
Big Tuna (Hebrew: זהירות מצלמה, Zehirot Matzlama, lit. Beware - Camera) is the first Israeli mockumentary film and a cult movie. The film presents the life story of Max Tuna Schreiber, the Israeli candid camera legend.
[edit] The plot
Big Tuna describes the life of Max Tuna Schreiber, who pulled a hoax on Israel's Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, filmed the first homosexual prank in the world (in 1967), and flew in a hot-air balloon to Egypt in order to bring peace between Israel and Egypt.
The movie follows Tuna Schreiber from his early days when he desperately tried to get into the film industry, through his short lasting glory days, until the big fall and the contracted debts as a result of his last and bizarre candid camera film in which he pulled hoaxes not on people but rather on walls and office supplies.
The film features the singer Zadok Savir, Joshua Simon, Roy "Chicky" Arad, Jozi Katz, Yehuda Barkan and Moshik Timor.
The film was created by Shaul Betser, Roy Arad and Erez Heiman and was shown at the Barcelona Jewish film festival and Contra Costa film festival and broatcasted on channel 2 of Israel while Purim holiday primetime.
[edit] Reviews
The movie received positive reviews from HaIr and Haaretz, the latter describing it as "a funny and touching film, an excellent mock where everything that is real is unreal, and everything that is unreal turns to real".
