Directing
Community Rating
7.1
TMDB estimate
Born
June 9, 1930
Died
December 13, 2003 (age 73)
Born in
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
David Perlov (Hebrew: דוד פרלוב) (born 9 June 1930 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; died December 13, 2003, in Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli documentary filmmaker. David Perlov was born in Rio de Janeiro and grew up in Belo Horizonte. At the age of 10, he went to live with his grandfather in São Paulo. At the age of 22, he moved to Paris and worked as a projectionist for the newly established Cinematheque. In 1957, he made his first short film, Tante chinoise (Old Aunt China), based on drawings of a 12-year-old girl of the French provincial bourgeoisie of 1890 which he found in the cellar of the Paris house in which he was living. In 1958, Perlov immigrated to Israel, settling with his wife Mira on Kibbutz Bror Hayil. The couple had two daughters, the twins Yael Perlov and Naomi Perlov. In 1963, Perlov made a 33-minute documentary In Jerusalem (בירושלים, Be-Yerushalayim). This film came to be one of the most important films of Israeli documentary cinema. Although Perlov made two feature films by 1972 (The Pill and 42:6), his film proposals were repeatedly rejected by the Israel Broadcasting Authority and Israeli film board, which found his work too lyrical. In May of the year 1973, Perlov bought a 16 mm camera and filmed his everyday life alongside dramatic events that took place in Israel at the time. He continued this work for 10 years, sometimes with almost no economic resources, until Channel 4 of British television expressed an interest in the project in 1983. Produced in association with Israel's largest television and film studio, Herzliya Studios (Ulpanei Herzliya), the result was Perlov's work Diary (יומן). From 1973 Perlov taught in the department of film and television at Tel Aviv University.

My Conversations on Film
as Himself
2013

my stills 1952-2002
as Director
2002

Updated Diary 1990-1999
as Director
2001

Meetings with Nathan Zach
as Director
1996
Yavne Street
as Director
1995

Isaak Stern
as Director
1984

Diary
as Director, Writer
1983

In Search of Ladino
as Director
1981

Memories of the Eichmann Trial
as Director
1979

Biba
as Director, Writer
1977

The Invasion of the Arab Armies - May 1948
as Director
1973
Kibbutz Moshav Moshava - Moshava
as Director
1973
Kibbutz Moshav Moshava - Kibbutz
as Director
1973
Kibbutz Moshav Moshava - Moshav
as Director
1973

The Pill
as Director
1972

The Oil Pipeline
as Director
1971

Navy
as Director
1971
42:6 - Ben Gurion
as Director
1969

Theatre In Israel
as Director
1967

On a New Track
as Director
1966