The House on Chelouche Street is a 1973 film by Israeli director Moshé Mizrahi, filmed in Hebrew, Egyptian Arabic, and Judeo-Spanish . The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film tells the story of a Sephardi family of Egyptian Jewish immigrants from Alexandria that settle in 1947 Tel Aviv. The family consists of a 33-year-old widowed wife, Clara, and her four children. They live in a working class neighborhood surrounded by their extended family, including Clara's mother Mazal, Clara's uncle Rafael, and Sultana, his wife. The plot centers on... the firstborn, Sami, his transition from a shy 15- year-old to a working man and an activist in the "Irgun" , and the romantic attachment he develops with a 25-year-old Russian immigrant librarian .
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| Release date: | 1973 |
| Directed by: | Moshé Mizrahi |
| Runtime: | 111 Minutes |
| Producer: | Menahem Golan |
| Editor: | Dov Hoenig |
| Music by: | Dov Seltzer |
| Cinematography: | Adam Greenberg |
| Screenplay by: | Moshé Mizrahi, Yerech Guber |