Menahem Golan
Menahem Golan (Hebrew מנחם גולן; born May 31, 1929 in Tiberias, Palestine as Menahem Globus) is an Israeli film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Life and work
During the years 1949/1950 Golan was discharged from the Israeli army. He traveled in connection to Italy, and from there he came across Paris to London. There he got a scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Golan began at the age of 22 years to work as a stage director. Golan spent about three years in the UK. After returning to Israel, he began stage adaptations to stage, especially American pieces.
A short time after his 30th birthday, he moved with his family to the United States of America. There he began to study about film on and took courses at the Columbia University and the City College of New York. In the years 1962/63 Golan got in touch with the director and producer Roger Corman, and was finally in the production of the film Fast cars and affairs ( The Young Racers ) involved. This cooperation meant Golan's first work in the film business.
In the same year turned Golan with El Dorado his first film for which he also worked as a screenwriter. The film itself was developed in Israel, where Golan had returned. The main role was played Chaim Topol. This production also marks the beginning of the long-standing partnership with his cousin Yoram Globus. For most of the following films by Golan both as producers worked together.
1965 produced Golan with Sallah - or: Swap daughter against apartment for the first time the film of another director. The government took over Ephraim Kishon and the film was even nominated as the first Israeli production as the best foreign film Oscar.
1979 took over Golan and Globus production company Cannon Films. Together they were among the leading independent film producers. During these years they produced, for example, the films of director J. Lee Thompson. The presence of their action movies with Chuck Norris in the lead role were known. Charles Bronson starred in 12 films of the two. In the late 1980s Golan and Globus went bankrupt with their company.
Menahem Golan, who occasionally also Joseph Goldman and Frank G. Carroll was called, also appeared from time to time in small roles as an actor.
A known directorial work he delivered in 1974 with the U.S. feature film The crime boss of New York with Tony Curtis in the title role from. In 2002, he surprised the movie world with an idiosyncratic adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, which he settled in Moscow during the millennium. Its fixed image as a producer of trivial action movies and comedies so far prevented a wide reception in Germany.
In 2003, he worked as a director and screenwriter at the shot in Bangkok Action Drama Final Combat. The following produced in Israel musicals Days of Love ( Yamim Shel Ahava ) and A Dangerous Dance ( Rikud Mesukan ) tested against it on Movie meters of new lows. In 2008 he continued his late friend, Ephraim Kishon with the comedy Marriage Agreement, a hitherto little -noticed monument.
In 1984 ( Worst film for Hercules ), 1987 (worst movie of The City Cobra ) and 1988 (worst movie for Tough Guys Do not Dance ), he was nominated and Yoram Globus each for the Golden Raspberry. In 1988 they were both hard for the film Men Do not Dance at the Independent Spirit Awards.