Directed by and Writing credits
     Ephraim Kishon

Produced by
      Menahem Golan

Genre: Comedy 

Original music by
              Yohanan Zaray

              Runtime: USA: 110
              Country: Israel 
              Language: Hebrew 
  (Hebrew w/Eng. subtitles)
      Color: Black and White 
               Sound Mix: Mono 
 

"Topol plays Sallah, a new immigrant to Israel, who arrives with his large family from the Orient. He lands in a ramshackle transit camp that arouses his disgust and decides to take on the bureaucracy. This heartwarming story is filled with humor, romance and satire.  Also with Gila Almagor, Arik Einstein and Geula Noni. Written and directed by Ephraim Kishon." 
"Sallah is fun!...warm of heart, shrewd of head and rascally to the core."-New York Herald Tribune 

"Sallah"
A comedy written and directed by Ephraim Kishon, the famous Israeli humorist.  The film follows the exploits of Sallah, a new immigrant to Israel from Yemen, as he struggles to escape the ramshackle transit camp into which the government places him and his large family. While the film has some slapstick fun with Sallah, its main object of satire is the Western Jews who run the country: Israeli bureaucrats, Israeli elections, American Jews who give money to plant trees in Israel, Jewish American tourists, and especially the kibbutz, with its claim to a way of life that is more humane and egalitarian than that of others.  Sallah makes complete fools of them all! 

Haym Topol stars in one of his best known comedies, and one of Israel's earliest features, as Sallah Shabbati, a cranky Sephardic Jew deposited with his large brood in Israel in a Maabara - a temporary camp that seems permanent to him and the other immigrants trapped there. Trying his best to avoid working and constantly scheming to get rich, Sallah (a Sgt. Bilko type if there ever was one) blunders his way through Israeli society as the film takes pot shots at everyone from his fellow Sephardim to Ashkenazi American tourists and the neighbouring Kibbutzniks themselves.
Also starring a young Gila Almagor (as an uptight Kibbutznik). This is one you won't want to miss. (The 1998 Toronto Jewish Film Festival)