10 Friday, September 5, 1975 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Prominent Soviet Film Director Makes Home in Israel By SYBIL KAUFMAN movement between ballet try's generations of conflicts and gymnastics. She also and confrontations, and the has worked as his assistant land and the people. Israel's entry to the on all his films. "Three and One" was sub- Cannes Film Festival this Before completing his sequently submitted to the year was the movie, "Three studies in 1958, he prepared Cannes Film Festival as the and One." Set in and around his first full-scale film. official Israeli film. For rea- the Red Sea resort town of Shortly after, he received a sons unknown to Kalik, he Eilat, it takes place a week "golden diploma," compara- was told that the French did before the outbreak of the ble to graduating with hon- not accept it as a regular en- Yom Kippur War. ors. Then, as is customary try and instead planned to The story concerns a in the Soviet Union, the it outside the frame- prominent Israel business- "distribution commission" show work of the competition. man and former soldier who sent him to Kishinev, capi- Kalik feels it will take at has left his life in Tel Aviv to tal of Moldavia a provincial least one more picture un- live on the beach. The ar- city with a small film stu- rival of his son,•who tries to din. For the next three til he considers himself an "Israeli" film director. persuade him to return years, he worked in Kishi- Professionally, he is satis- home, develops into a love- nev, directing three films. quadrangle with the fath- The film, "Following fied with Israel, but he feels a lack of environ- er's new - found girlfriend the Sun," produced there ment, the artistical cine- and her boyfriend. in 1961, aroused much matographical element, The film is by Michael talk. Although it was in- surrounding him. Al- Kalik, the first prominent vited to enter interna- Soviet movie director to emi- tional film festivals, the though it exists in Israel, grate from Russia to the Soviet government would it is not enough for him. "This doesn't mean I'm West. He is a dynamic, ex - not give their permission citing, vibrant individual as because they said it was going to look for it some- where else. It can be devel- he talks about himself not typical of Soviet films. oped here." through a friend who tran- Finally, in 1962, it was At the present time, Kalik slates simultaneously from shown publicly, and was is writing a script which is Russian into English. awarded first prize at the slightly autobiographical. Kalik was born in 1927 Helsinki film festival. He says of it: "It. is a comedy in Moscow. His father was As a result of this honor, a Russian theater actor. the MosFilm Studio felt ob- He grew up with no Jew liged to invite Kalik to re- ish background, no Jewish turn to Moscow and work Histadrut Reports traditions in what he calls for them. an "assimilated family." From 1958 - 70, Kalik di- Record Donations The only Jewish thing he rected seven major films LOS ANGELES (JTA) — recalls are legends or sto- and was constantly in con- Receipt of $1.1 million, the ries which his grand flict with the authorities. largest contribution in the mother told. His last four films caused 54-year history of the Israel In 1951, during his third scandals because they each Histadrut Campaign in the year of studying film direct- had a Jewish character. United States, has been re- ing, he criticized the anti- In October 1970 Kalik ported here by the West Jewish policies of the Soviet applied for an exit visa and Coast office of the fund- government, particularly was refused. Expelled from raising drive for Israel's la- the closure of the Jewish the Union of Cinematogra- bor, health, education and (Yiddish) theater and other phers, with no source of in- welfare federation.' Jewish institutions. Making come, the authorities perse- The amount included his criticism public, he cuted him and prepared a $900,000 from Mrs. Nettie talked to other students. criminal case against him. Miriam Gorov and $200,000 He was arrested with four the next year, a de- ""--- , indents by the secret During legation from mu..vii n, from Meyer Feldman, two police and 'me:, ---4-,A a Histadrut admirers from nCtitelins asked him to return _ A mbn first met especially big case against to work and -«>i his_ and arranged their benenie- him and the others, under application for an exit visa. tions shortly before their the title "Anti-Soviet. Youth The delegation left and deaths during the past year, Terrorist Organization." strangely the criminal through their estates. The group was judged by a case was closed. Three military tribunal and all months later, Kalik's visa were sentenced to death by was approved and he and 1 shooting. Because of their young age (Michael was 24), his family left the Soviet the sentences were com - Union in November 1971. In Israel, after learning muted to 25 years imprison - Hebrew for half a year, he ment. wanted to again work di- Kalik spent the next year recting films. For a year in solitary confinement in a and a half he taught both prison. Then he was trans - theory and practical film fe•red to a camp in Siberia production, wrote. two where he spent a year and a scripts and raised money half. for his first Israeli film. "In this period in prison Although interrupted by and in the camp, I became the Yom Kippur War in a Jew. In the camp I got December 1973 he continued acquainted with Jews and working, and devoted all Zionists. Although I was 1972 to preparing, shooting, sent to the camp for the editing, producing and sell- crime of being a Zionist, I ing the film. "Three and was nothing of the kind. I One," which premiered in became a Zionist in the Israel in early May, was camp." prompted by the Maxim Besides his sense of Jew- Gorki story, "Malva." Re- ishness, Kalik sees the pe- membering its schematic Hod in the camp and prison arrangement of a woman, a as the most spiritual in his man, his son and another life." man, everything fell into After Stalin's death, his place for Kalik, since he had case was reviewed and he already decided to set the was freed in 1954. Kalik was film in Israel. then reinstated in the Insti- Kalik explains that the tute of Cinematography. He film can be viewed on sev- was introduced to a Jewish eral different levels. The girl at a social gathering at average cinema-goer will see the home of a Jewish com- a love story with sexual poser. He and Shoshana movements and drama. 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