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By Android Grove

Updated 18 March 2023

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1964 film by Ephraim Kishon

Sallah Shabati

Released	1964 (58 years, 3 months ago)

Director	Ephraim Kishon
Duration	98 minutes
Nominated for	Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Country of origin	Israel
Screenwriter	Ephraim Kishon
Producer	Menahem Golan

About Sallah Shabati

Sallah Shabati (Hebrew: סאלח שבתי‎‎) is a 1964 Israeli comedy film about the chaos of Israeli immigration and resettlement. This social satire placed the director Ephraim Kishon and producer Menahem Golan among the first Israeli filmmakers to achieve international success. It also introduced actor Chaim Topol (Fiddler on the Roof) to audiences worldwide.

The film's name, Sallah Shabati is a play on words; ostensibly a Yemenite Jewish name, it is also intended to evoke the phrase סליחה שבאתי, "sorry that I came". In earlier print versions of Kishon's short stories which were revised for the film, the character was known as Saadia Shabtai.