David Perlov

Directing·Jun 9, 1930·Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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David Perlov (Hebrew: דוד פרלוב) (born 9 June 1930 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; died December 13, 2003, in Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli documentary filmmaker. David Perlov was born in Rio de Janeiro and grew up in Belo Horizonte. At the age of 10, he went to live with his grandfather in São Paulo. At the age of 22, he moved to Paris and worked as a projectionist for the newly established Cinematheque. In 1957, he made his first short film, Tante chinoise (Old Aunt China), based on drawings of a 12-year-old girl of the French provincial bourgeoisie of 1890 which he found in the cellar of the Paris house in which he was living. In 1958, Perlov immigrated to Israel, settling with his wife Mira on Kibbutz Bror Hayil. The couple had two daughters, the twins Yael Perlov and Naomi Perlov. In 1963, Perlov made a 33-minute documentary In Jerusalem (בירושלים, Be-Yerushalayim). This film came to be one of the most important films of Israeli documentary cinema. Although Perlov made two feature films by 1972 (The Pill and 42:6), his film proposals were repeatedly rejected by the Israel Broadcasting Authority and Israeli film board, which found his work too lyrical. In May of the year 1973, Perlov bought a 16 mm camera and filmed his everyday life alongside dramatic events that took place in Israel at the time. He continued this work for 10 years, sometimes with almost no economic resources, until Channel 4 of British television expressed an interest in the project in 1983. Produced in association with Israel's largest television and film studio, Herzliya Studios (Ulpanei Herzliya), the result was Perlov's work Diary (יומן). From 1973 Perlov taught in the department of film and television at Tel Aviv University.

Film	Credit
My Conversations on Film2013 · Himself	Himself
my stills 1952-20022002 · Director	Director
Updated Diary 1990-19992001 · Director	Director
Meetings with Nathan Zach1996 · Director	Director
YYavne Street1995 · Director	Director
Isaak Stern1984 · Director	Director
Diary1983 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
In Search of Ladino1981 · Director	Director
Memories of the Eichmann Trial1979 · Director	Director
Biba1977 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Invasion of the Arab Armies - May 19481973 · Director	Director
KKibbutz Moshav Moshava - Moshava1973 · Director	Director
KKibbutz Moshav Moshava - Kibbutz1973 · Director	Director
KKibbutz Moshav Moshava - Moshav1973 · Director	Director
The Pill1972 · Director	Director
The Oil Pipeline1971 · Director	Director
Navy1971 · Director	Director
42:6 - Ben Gurion1969 · Director	Director
Theatre In Israel1967 · Director	Director
On a New Track1966 · Director	Director
Tel Katzir1964 · Director	Director
The National Water Carrier1964 · Director	Director
In Jerusalem1963 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Fisherman In Jaffa1962 · Director	Director
High Tension1961 · Director	Director
In Thy Blood, Live1961 · Director	Director
OOld Aunt China1957 · Director	Director