David Perlov

Biography

David Perlov (Hebrew: דוד פרלוב) (born 9 June 1930 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; died December 13, 2003, in Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli documentary filmmaker. David Perlov was born in Rio de Janeiro and grew up in Belo Horizonte. At the age of 10, he went to live with his grandfather in São Paulo. At the age of 22, he moved to Paris and worked as a projectionist for the newly established Cinematheque. In 1957, he made his first short film, Tante chinoise (Old Aunt China), based on drawings of a 12-year-old girl of the French provincial bourgeoisie of 1890 which he found in the cellar of the Paris house in which he was living. In 1958, Perlov immigrated to Israel, settling with his wife Mira on Kibbutz Bror Hayil. The couple had two daughters, the twins Yael Perlov and Naomi Perlov. In 1963, Perlov made a 33-minute documentary In Jerusalem (בירושלים, Be-Yerushalayim). This film came to be one of the most important films of Israeli documentary cinema. Although Perlov made two feature films by 1972 (The Pill and 42:6), his film proposals were repeatedly rejected by the Israel Broadcasting Authority and Israeli film board, which found his work too lyrical. In May of the year 1973, …

Directed

1. Diary (1983) — Director
2. The Pill (1972) — Director
3. In Jerusalem (1963) — Director
4. 42:6 - Ben Gurion (1969) — Director
5. Theatre In Israel (1967) — Director
6. Tel Katzir (1964) — Director
7. Yavne Street (1995) — Director
8. Updated Diary 1990-1999 (2001) — Director
9. Fisherman In Jaffa (1962) — Director
10. The Invasion of the Arab Armies - May 1948 (1973) — Director
11. Biba (1977) — Director
12. Meetings with Nathan Zach (1996) — Director
13. Isaak Stern (1984) — Director
14. High Tension (1961) — Director
15. Memories of the Eichmann Trial (1979) — Director
16. In Thy Blood, Live (1961) — Director
17. Old Aunt China (1957) — Director
18. In Search of Ladino (1981) — Director
19. my stills 1952-2002 (2002) — Director
20. The Oil Pipeline (1971) — Director
21. On a New Track (1966) — Director
22. Navy (1971) — Director
23. The National Water Carrier (1964) — Director
24. Kibbutz Moshav Moshava - Moshava (1973) — Director
25. Kibbutz Moshav Moshava - Kibbutz (1973) — Director
26. Kibbutz Moshav Moshava - Moshav (1973) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Diary (1983)
2. My Conversations on Film (2013) — Himself