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RUNTIME
Did you know
90 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
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Cast
Gavri Banai
Lihi Efron
Josie Katz
Judy Katz
Shaike Levi
Tikva Mor
Yisrael Poliakov
Liora Rivlin
Tzipi Shavit
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Uri Zohar
- Writers
- Talila Ben-Zakai
- Countries
- Israel
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Fun facts 🍿
Cinephile deep dive
The take
Uri Zohar directs. David Gurfinkel behind the camera. Anna Gurit cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Israel.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
- 256 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Uri Zohar, shot by David Gurfinkel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Editor Anna Gurit shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 6Gavri Banai and Lihi Efron and Josie Katz carry the top of the cast.
- 7IMDB entry: tt0144968 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 8Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- David Gurfinkel
- Editing
- Anna Gurit
- Runtime
- 90 min · 1h 30m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- HE
- IMDB
- Take Off (1970)
Also by
Uri Zohar
Production companies
Who made it
- DE
Deshe-Zohar-Topol Productions
Key crew
- ProducerAvraham Deshe
- GripDavid Kordova
- EditorAnna Gurit
- MusicShalom Hanoch
- Camera InternMenashe Hova
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1970-02-01
