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Assi Dayan - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

Assi Dayan - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Actor, Writer, Director, Producer.

November 23, 1945, Nahalal, British Mandate in Palestine (Israel) - May 1, 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel - Israeli actor, screenwriter, director and producer.

He was the youngest of three children - his older sister Yael became a politician and his brother Udi became a sculptor. Asaf's relatives also include former Israeli President Ezer Weizman and poet Yonatan Gefen.

After serving three years in the paratrooper forces (in the next 24 years of reserve service he will take part in three wars), Asaf graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied philosophy and English literature.

Already the debut role of Asi Dayan in 1967 in the film “He walked through the fields”, which became cult in Israel, based on the novel by Moshe Shamir, brought him national fame. The following year, he starred in John Houston's film A Walk with Love and Death, and in 1970 - in the film by the French director Jules Dassin's Promise at Dawn as a young Roman Katsev, becoming a Golden Globe nominee as “The Most Promising debutant".

In 1977, Dayan played a heroic paratrooper major in another patriotic Israeli film, Operation Yonathan, which was nominated for an Oscar. However, with age, Dayan parted ways with the image of the young Zionist Sabra, which he sang at the dawn of his career. After the Lebanese War, he played several roles in anti-war films - including in the Oscar-nominated Uri Barbash's Behind Bars, where he played a left-wing activist convicted of anti-state activities.

Dayan reached a new level in the 1990s with the release of his "nihilist trilogy" - the films "A Life According to Agfa" (for which he received the Ophir National Film Award as a screenwriter and director and was nominated for the main prize of the Berlin Film Festival) , Moshe's Electric Blanket (also awarded Ophir for Best Screenplay) and 92 Minutes (originally titled Mr. Baum; Ophir for Screenplay and Lead Actor and Director nomination, and Palme d'Or "at the Valencia Mediterranean Film Festival and a nomination for" Golden Hugo "at the Chicago Film Festival).

Among his work in the series, the most highly acclaimed was the role of psychologist Reuven Dagan in the TV series "Reception", for which he twice - in 2006 and 2008 - was awarded the prize of the Israel Academy of Film and Television. He was also nominated for Ophir for his role as a rabbi in Summer Vacation (in the English box office - My Father, My God), and in 2009 he received his eighth national film award - for achievements throughout his career. The most recent nomination for "Ophir" was given to Dayan's script for the 2011 film "Doctor Pomeranz", which the author himself calls "the fourth part" of his film trilogy of the 90s.

In 2009, Asi was arrested for an intoxicated assault on his last girlfriend, who was in her final months of pregnancy. The court sentenced 64-year-old Dayan to a year of probation and ordered him to undergo regular drug testing, since he had already been detained by the police several times and was hospitalized several times due to drug use. Dayan suffered a heart attack shortly after the verdict. He never managed to fully recover and died.


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