Sasha Klein
Production
Biography
Winner of Israeli Academy Award, Sasha Klein has been working as a Director and Producer since he immigrated to Israel from USSR in 1974. Sasha Klein is the founder and the CEO of Sasha Klein Productions (1986) - one of the leading production companies in Israel. For more than 30 years Sasha Klein Productions LTD has developed and produced tens of narrative and documentary feature films and television programs. The signature productions are social issues and documentary dramas; other specialties include topics of the ex-Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The company is an experienced co-production partner for national and international film productions and also provides services to fellow documentary and fiction producers. Sasha leached TV & Cinema production at several cinema schools in Israel, such as Tel Aviv University School of Film and Television and COMAS - the College of Management Academic Studies, Israel. Films by Sasha Klein Productions have received numerous awards on several Israeli and international Film Festivals. His documentary "The Prime Minister's Diary" about the last month in the life of Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, won the Israeli Academy Award (The Israeli OSKAR) for the best Documentary and the Golden Medal on Monte Carlo Film Festival.
Known For
Merab, a Georgian taxi driver who mistakenly crosses into Israel while seeing off his Jewish brother, Yasha, gets stuck without documents. He gets entangled in bureaucratic nightmares, mistaken identity, and KGB plots while trying to return home.
The Passport
Crime is something that usually happens in secret, away from the public eye, indeed away from virtually everyone's view. This is all the more true for organized crime, whose representatives go to great lengths to conduct their brutal, lucrative business undetected and in secret. Perhaps it is above all this contradiction between crime and openness from which this documentary draws its shocking effect. For rarely before have high-ranking gangsters spoken so candidly - and here and there so brutally openly that you can hardly believe your ears - in front of the camera about their careers, about extortion and torture, robbery and murder.
Die russische Mafia
An anthology film about the common topic of the Holocaust and honouring the memory of the victims. What caused the mass extermination of people on a national basis? Where do origins of interethnic intolerance, anti-Semitism, nationalist propaganda come from? Today these issues are still topical. Nationally motivated conflicts still fare up between people; national hostility is still kindled. There are voices that deny the reality of the Holocaust as a historical fact. We cannot allow a repetition of the monstrous tragedy and should never forget about it!
Witnesses
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, "heroes" in the West but "terrorists" in Russia, even today.
Operation "Wedding"
Avram, an Hassadic hippie; Hassan, an Arab inventor; and Tex, a nonchalant Jew, with so different backgrounds and characters, share a liberal view about sexuality. In a world abiding by the strict moral derived from the Dybbuk (sacred book), the three men will go through a number of tribulations concerning marriage.