Birthday:
12-29-1969
(55 years)
Birthplace:
Kiryat Yam, Israel
Biography
Dvir Benedek is an Israeli actor who appeared in many theater plays, television series and feature films. He's best known for his role in the television series "Taxi Driver" and as the lead character in "HaMisrad", an Israeli version of British show "The Office".
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Pathways
event2007 star_border 2
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An Israeli village, a cheerful holiday and a young woman seeking redemption.
A Matter of Size
Act like Aharon
event2009 star_border 6
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Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in Ramle he discovers the world of Sumo where large people such as himself are honored and appreciated. Through Kitano (60 kilos), the restaurant owner, a former Sumo coach in Japan (who is supposedly hiding from the Yakuza in Israel), he falls in love with a sport involving "two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos". Herzl wants Kitano to be their coach but Kitano is reluctant - they first have to earn their spurs. "A MATTER OF SIZE" is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.
Golda
Act like Eli Zeira
event2023 star_border 6.4
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Set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is faced with the potential of Israel’s complete destruction. She must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world.
The Attack
Act like Raveed
event2012 star_border 6.8
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An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Barbie Blues
Act like Gershon
event2011 star_border 7.5
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Israeli teen girl by the backyard pool finds a curious symbol floating atop the water . With her new neighbor she grapples with its significance as a 2011 cautionary tale within a Lolitaesque power struggle in the sex pit.
To Kill a Bumblebee
Act like Zturi
event2010
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Canaan kills a bee. It is not the last thing he will kill today. How far would you go to defend the world you build for yourself? A tragicomic reflection about life, friendship and the power of fear.
Big Bad Wolves
Act like Tsvika
event2013 star_border 6.6
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Tel Aviv, Israel. The twisted paths of three very different men brutally collide due to a chain of unspeakable murders: a grieving father who has been doomed to seek vengeance and a police detective who boldly crosses the narrow boundary between law and crime meet a religion teacher suspected of being the murderer.
2 Night
Act like Cop
event2011 star_border 8
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In a city where everything is possible, a guy and a girl are looking for the impossible - a parking place. the story of an hour and a half of two strangers who met in a bar and want to spend the night together but cant find a parking place and thus become 'victims' of the situation and have to deal each with the other, the situation and himself.
What a Wonderful Place
Act like Der Boss
event2005 star_border 6.2
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When a five girls are brought to Israel from Russia for prostitution, one of them (Jana) loses her bag near the Israeli border. Zeltzer, a farm owner from Negev, finds it and sees Jana's photos...
On Air
Act like Arik
event1999 star_border 6
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"On Air" (aka "Zman Avir") is a 1999 Israeli film directed and written by Isaac Zepel Yeshurun. The film is an allegory of the complex Israeli society and tells the story of a former member of the Shin-Bet with family problems who leaves on a secret mission.
Wounded Land
event2015 star_border 8
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Police officer Kobi Amar and his Region Commander Yehuda Neumann have been partners at the Haifa police force for years, but now, they face a critical turning point in their relationship and those of their families when one is forced to turn against the other. Furthermore, the tumultuous events of the night, following a brutal terror attack, place Kobi and Neumann's moral and professional values at stake, as well as their long dedicated friendship.
Black Slide
Act like Dad (voice)
event2021 star_border 6.7
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Eviah, a young and timid kid on the brink of puberty and his best friend sneak into the Black slide, the most terrifying ride in Aqua Fun. There Eviah will gain insight to prepare him for events about to unfold at home. Eviah is about to confront more then just a scary slide.
Lemon Popsicle 9: The Party Goes On
Act like Helga's husband
event2001 star_border 5
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This movie is a sequel to the saga of movies about 3 guys in the middle of the 50's during their sex urges and other funny incidents.
Maya
event2010 star_border 7
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Romantic drama about a young woman discovering herself through the art of acting.
Blush
Act like Gidon Barash
event2015 star_border 5.5
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Na'ama is seventeen. She lives in a sleepy suburbia. She is bored. With detached parents and a rebellious older sister, her life at home is a mess. It all changes when a new girl appears at school. She's introduced to a world of drugs, lesbians and sex. She's thrilled. Her life, at last, becomes exciting. Is it going to last? "Barash" is a coming of age story, planted in the heart of Israeli society, about a young woman who struggles to find her self-identity in an environment that has different ideas about sex, drugs and love.
Like Ashes in Your Coffee
Act like Aviram
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The film imitates the state of mind of Mrs Segal as she takes care of her husband during his last months, when reality blends with the merciful fiction. Their love might just triumph over nature. Based on the directors true events.
Like Ashes in Your Coffee
Act like Aviram
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The film imitates the state of mind of Mrs Segal as she takes care of her husband during his last months, when reality blends with the merciful fiction. Their love might just triumph over nature. Based on the directors true events.
Heritage
Act like Uli
event2017 star_border 4.5
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Noam, a young gay man, discovers that his father, who just died, had a secret affair with a married man. He follows and meets that man. He now holds his father’s secret.
Mossad
Act like Shuki
event2019 star_border 5.2
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A Mossad agent competes with a CIA agent in a war with a terrorist organization that threatens to blow up the world with cell phones. If they fail in their mission, the head of the Mossad will not be able to light a torch on Independence Day on live television, which is forbidden.
A Five Minute Walk
event2001 star_border 5
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Tel Aviv cop Amir Samo (Sharon Alexander) was on the brink of nabbing a notorious pimp and drug dealer when the scumbag framed him for harassment and got him suspended. Derided by the press and the criminal underworld, Samo seeks solace in the local pub. There, he encounters Michal (Tal Kahana), a despondent barmaid saddled with a wannabe film director boyfriend (Adam Horowitz). Alon Abutbul and Noa Tishby co-star.
Why I Didn't Report
Act like Male police officer
event2021
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Dana, who named her rapist online, is interrogated by a policewoman who must determine whether Dana is a slanderer or a survivor. Once the station chief joins them, Dana's fate will be sealed in the interrogation room.
The Lesson
Act like Zeev (6 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.2
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In a sleepy high school in Kfar Sava, in a Citizenship class, 12th-grader Lianne and her teacher Amir get into a heated political confrontation that gets out of hand and soon reaches personal and painful places.
Ha'Nephilim
Act like Noah Litani (75 ep.)
event2007
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Ha'Nephilim is a television programme currently being broadcast on Yes Israeli written by Ruby Doanias and Chen Kliman. It is named after the biblical Nephilim, who are referred to in the show. The second season is said to be broadcast on the Israeli Kids Channel.
Your Family or Mine
Act like Shai Rosen (321 ep.)
event2011 star_border 8.7
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Shani and her husband Shai visit her Sephardic family, then his Ashkenazi brood, for regular weekend meals that reveal both clans' quirks and foibles.
Mama's Angel
Act like Eran Schneider (10 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7
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Several families are living their uneventful lives in a well-off Tel Aviv suburb until the day someone is murdered in the neighborhood. At first shocked by the event, the neighbors soon start covering up their direct or indirect involvement in the affair.
Asylum City
Act like Faro (12 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7.5
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Based on the best-selling novel by the same name, "Asylum City" is set in the underworld of refugees and asylum seekers; those looking to help them and those who take advantage of their plight. A young social activist is found dead and the main suspect is an asylum seeker from Africa who was seen leaving her apartment. Police Officer Anat Sitton leads the murder investigation, unravelling a complex world of corrupt politicians, organized crime and illegal arms deals, putting her in the center of a dangerous and parallel universe with its own codes and morals.
The Office
Act like Avi Meshulam (30 ep.)
event2010
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“The Office” is a mocumentary series based on the British show of the same name. Somewhere within the industrial area of Yahud is a grey, drab office, the failing branch of an office supply company heroically named “Paper-Office”. The branch is run by the show’s protagonist, Avi Meshulam, a 40-year-old loser, who’s overweight and has severe self-image issues that turn him into a liar, a suck-up, and a generally unbearable human being. He’s absolutely sure that he’s a wonderful standup comedian, who wound up in this boring, humiliating job purely by chance.
Management is constantly trying to fire him, his employees despise him, yet he is ever the optimist, and he talks in catch phrases lifted from the most banal management books. He is surrounded by the range of characters that make up the impossible mosaic of Israeli society. Romance flourishes, schemes are hatched, lamination machines are sold on sale– and everybody tries to make it through yet another day with their unbearable boss.
Messiah
Act like Director Baerman (5 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.2
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A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?
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