Big Tuna
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- Big Tuna is also a nickname for the television character Jim Halpert
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| Directed by | Shaul Betser |
| Produced by | Galit Benglas and Edo Zuckerman |
| Written by | Roy Arad, Erez Heiman and Shaul Betser |
| Starring | Zadok Savir Joshua Simon |
| Cinematography | Boaz Yaakov |
| Editing by | Zachi Klein |
| Release date(s) | 2004 |
| Running time | 57 min |
| Language | Hebrew, English Subtitle |
| Budget | 60000 |
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Big Tuna (AKA Zehirut Matzlema or in Hebrew זהירות מצלמה) is the first Israeli mockumentary film and a cult movie. The film presents the crazy and amazing life story of Max Tuna Schreiber, the Israeli candid camera legend.
[edit] The plot
Big tuna (2004) describes the life of Max Tuna Schreiber, who pulled a hoax on Israel's Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, filmed the first homosexual prank in the world (in 1967), and flew in a hot-air balloon to Egypt in order to bring peace between Israel and Egypt.
The movie follows Tuna Schreiber from his early days when he desperately tried to get into the film industry, through his short lasting glory days, until the big fall and the contracted debts as a result of his last and bizarre candid camera film in which he pulled hoaxes not on people but rather on walls and office supplies.
Starring: the singer Zadok Savir, Joshua Simon, Roy "Chicky" Arad, Jozi Katz, Yehuda Barkan and Moshik Timor.
[edit] The Movie
The film creators are Shaul Betser, Roy Arad and Erez Heiman. "Big Tuna" was participated in Barcelona Jewish film festival and Contra Costa film festival and broatcasted on channel 2 of Israel while Purim holiday primetime.
Sharon Ben Ezer, a critic from Ha'ir wrote: "Big Tuna is first of all a superbly made funny story filled with adorable nonsense. But it is also an intelligent interpretation of Israeli culture that is full of love and nostalgia that is so missing these days”.
Sagie Green, the TV critic of Haaretz: “A funny and touching film, an excellent mock where everything that is real is unreal, and everything that is unreal turns to real".
In 2006, by the launching of the DVD, "Nana magazine" reporter compared Max Tuna Schriber To Roy Arad, one of the scriptwriters who played young "Tuna".
