Hole in the Moon
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Hole in the Moon is an Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

- satiric
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 movie, published in 1964.

Amos Kenan wrote its script
Script
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 and Uri Zohar
Uri Zohar
Uri Zohar is a former Israeli film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi.-Biography:Zohar was born in Tel Aviv in 1934. In 1952, he graduated high school and did his military service in an army entertainment troupe. His first marriage ended in divorce.By...

 directed it and was its star. The costar was Avraham Heffner
Avraham Heffner
Avraham Heffner is an Israeli movie director, screenwriter, writer, and Professor Emeritus at the Tel-Aviv University. He is a recipient of the Ophir Award for lifetime achievements....

. The guest actors were Dahn Ben-Amotz and Shaike Ophir. Many other actors performed in the film a few short roles each. Those actors were Shmulik Kraus
Shmulik Kraus
Shmulik Kraus is an Israeli actor and Pop-Rock singer and composer. Kraus published solo albums, as well as participating in Rock groups and actor groups . He participted in some movies .He composed many songs for other performers Shmulik Kraus (Hebrew: שמוליק קראוס, born in 1935) is an Israeli...

, Arik Lavie
Arik Lavie
Arik Lavie was an Israeli actor and Pop-Rock-Folk singer.His career started in the military band of the Palmach, in 1945. Since then, he participated in many theater plays and some movies Arik Lavie (Hebrew: אריק לביא, born in 1927, Leipzig, died in 2004, Petah Tikva) was an Israeli actor and...

, Shoshana Shani, Israel Gurion, Dafna Ayelet, Christine Denkor, and Zeev Berlinsky.

The film shows the ridicules sides of the film industry (e.g. shallow understanding of psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...

), the old Zionism
Zionism
Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...

 (e.g. taking the non-Ashkenazi Jews
Jews
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 for granted) and the Israeli cinema (e.g. copying irrelevant themes from the American cinema). In about the middle of the movie, there is a timeout from the movie's plot, and Zohar takes the camera man to interview young ladies, on the street. He is asking them whether they like to join the movie. They all say yes, and the next scenes in the movie are their auditions. In a later scene, when Dahn Ben-Amotz plays the expert of psychoanalysis, those anonymous ladies play his subjects.
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