1. Michal Bat-Adam is an Israeli film director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and musician.
11 Facts About Michal Bat-Adam
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Michal Bat-Adam explores the line between sanity and mental illness.
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Michal Bat-Adam was born in Afula, Israel to parents Yemima and Adam Rubin, who had immigrated from Warsaw in 1939.
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When Michal was six and a half years old, she was sent to join her older sister Netta at Kibbutz Merhavia in the Harod Valley.
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At 17, Michal Bat-Adam left the kibbutz and returned to care for her mother.
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Originally wanting to be a musician, Michal Bat-Adam studied at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music.
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In 1972 Michal Bat-Adam was cast in the title role in Moshe Mizrahi's film I Love You Rosa.
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Michal Bat-Adam continued to act in several of Mizrahi's movies, including; The House on Chelouche Street, Daughters, Daughters, and Women.
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Michal Bat-Adam appeared in Mizrahi's Academy Award-winning French film, Madame Rosa in 1977.
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Michal Bat-Adam was living in Paris in the late 1970s when she began her career as a screenwriter and director.
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Michal Bat-Adam's first film was a French-Israeli co-production, Moments, released in the United States under the title Each Other.