Micha Shagrir
Micha Shagrir ({{langx|he|מיכה שגריר}}; November 1, 1937 – February 4, 2015) was an Israeli film director, producer, radio presenter, and journalist. He produced feature and documentary films and TV shows.[https://jfc.org.il/en/collection/micha-shagrir/ Micha Shagrir - 50 years of Filmmaking]Hannah Brown, [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/micha-shagrir-pillar-of-the-israeli-film-industry-dies-390007 Micha Shagrir, pillar of the Israeli film industry, dies], The Jerusalem Post, February 4, 2015
He was the head of Kastel Productions, a co-founder of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem, and a chairman of the {{ill|Israel Film Foundation|he|קרן הקולנוע הישראלי}}.
Biography
Micha Shagrir was born in Linz, Austria as Josef Michael Schwager. (Among other films, Shagrir made a documentary Linz. Bischofstrasse 7 about the street in Linz where his family lived.) His father Karl Schwager emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1921, where he lived in kibbutz Heftziba and where he met Micha Shagrir's mother, Vally (Yehudit). She already had a son Chaim, from her recently deceased husband Georg Grünwald. They returned to Austria in 1932 or 1933, but immediately after the Nazi's Anschluss, in April 1938 they emigrated to Palestine. At first they lived in Heftziba, later in Tel Aviv and Holon. Later Micha lived in other places. In 1949 the family changed their surname to Shagrir (which means "ambassador" in Hebrew). The father took the name Hanan, and the mother Yehudit[https://austrianheritagearchive.at/en/interviews/person/715 Micha Shagrir], interview[https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1175514 Studio portrait of the Schwager family taken shortly before the Anschluss], United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Micha Shagrir graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Family
Micha Shagrir was married to Aliza Shagrir ({{nee}} Levi) in Jerusalem in 1961. She was murdered during the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing while on Sukkot vacation and passing by the assaulted rue Copernic synagogue. They had two sons, Oron and Hagai.[https://laad.btl.gov.il/Web/He/TerrorVictims/Page/Default.aspx?ID=35304 עליזה שגריר לוי זל] Micha Shagrir established the Azisa Shagrir Foundation in her memory, for awarding young documentary filmmakers.Greer Fay Cashman, [https://www.jpost.com/not-just-news/grapevine-shagrirs-career-445374 Grapevine: Shagrir’s career], The Jerusalem Post, February 18, 2016
Awards
- 1999: Honorary Fellow of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School
- 2005: Jerusalem Film Festival Life Achievement Award
- Israeli Film Academy's Life Achievement Award
- 2008: Gold Medal of Honour of the City of Linz[https://www.linz09.at/de/kulturhauptstadt/programm/archiv/artikel/2100719/ehrenzeichen_micha_shagrir.html Ehrenzeichen der Stadt Linz an Micha Shagrir] ([https://www.linz09.at/en/capital-of-culture/programm/archiv/artikel/2100719/medal_of_honor_micha_shagir.html in ENglish])
- 2009: {{ill|Culture Medal of Upper Austria|de|Kulturmedaille des Landes Oberösterreich}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20131226201755/https://www.ooe-international.at/834_DEU_PRINT.htm Kulturmedaille des Landes für israelischen Filmemacher Micha Shagrir]
Filmography
Shagrir directed and produced over 250 documentaries, television and feature films.
- 1967: {{ill|Sayarim|he|סיירים (סרט)}} (Scouting Patrol) (feature film, director), about a squad that infiltrated across the border to capture a wanted terrorist (based on a real story)[https://cinemaofisrael.co.il/סיירים/ סיירים]
- 1969: {{ill|The War After the War|he|המלחמה לאחר המלחמה}} (full-length documentary, director)[https://cinemaofisrael.co.il/המלחמה-לאחר-המלחמה/ המלחמה לאחר המלחמה [תיעודי]]
References
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External links
- [https://jfc.org.il/en/compilation/micha-shagrir-film-collection/ Micha Shagrir Film Collection], Israeli Film Archive
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Category:Israeli film directors
Category:Israeli film producers
Category:Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss