Sarit Vino-Elad and Pablo Rosenberg in a segment from the series "Tito and his Spirit"/courtesy of HOT
There are successful cover versions, and there is "our way".
When Sharit Vino-Elad and Hani Furstenberg re-performed the song written by Yankel' Rotblit and originally performed by Danny Bassen as part of "The Bourgeois" in 2001, it became a song that represents the sad days of the Second Intifada period.
These war days, which created longing for old and comforting songs, brought him back to consciousness, among other things when he was renewed by the band "Zaho Zah" five days after October 7, and also when Basan returned and performed it last Saturday at the support rally for the families of the abductees.
Even today, he manages to comfort us in difficult moments.
But the story behind it has several versions.
"Yankel'e Rotblit, the writer of the song, said he wrote the song about his wife who had severe muscular dystrophy. Danny Bassen claims that he asked Rotblit to write the song about Danny and his wife's journey to have children, and in the end they had triplets," says Wino-Elad , who since then identifies as kosher and not kosher, in an interview with Walla!
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"And when I'm asked about this song, then for me it's about Major Mor Alraz, who really liked the song and in his last letter to his girlfriend, before he was killed in the siege, he wrote to her: 'In an activity deep in Area A we sang the song, and when we got to the second house we couldn't remember In one of the lines. The line was all the good is still ahead of you. Think about it. I love you'. That's what he wrote in his last letter before he was killed. To this day when I think of the song, I think of him, and also of mothers in the oncology department who sat next to their children and told me that this song He helped them get through the days there. You know, from a song that is very private, that the writer claims is his and the performer claims that it is his, it became a song of cycles of suffering, and I hope it is comforting."
In days like this, when our path is not easy to say the least, we can perhaps find some solace in a new work in which Vino-Elad is a partner - the TV series "Tito and His Spirit" (HOT3), signed as creators and main screenwriters by Dina Sanderson and Yuval Shperman, who also directed and produced Yoav Gross.
The drama, which premiered last week and is broadcast on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m., is a spin-off of the series "Uri Valla", winner of six Television Academy Awards.
and is defined by its creators as a "romantic comedy between the light side and the dark side of life".
The series is about the celebrity chef Tito (Pablo Rosenberg), who decides to celebrate the 34th birthday of Eden (Maggie Ezerzer), his pregnant model partner, and is forced to bring into their house Samdar (Vino-Elad), his ex-wife who tried to commit suicide during the party.
Tito decides that this is also the time to shake his brother's spirit (Shmulik Rosenberg, Pablo's brother in real life), and convinces him to leave their mother's house, get a divorce and start doing a good job as his personal manager.
The series manages to combine powerful sad moments - with laugh-out-loud moments (wait for the third episode in which Rina Mosel stars as a psychic), and to be both a bloody asado and sweet alfahors cookies.
Sarit Vino Elad/Reuven Castro
You play a character who suffers from clinical depression and manages to break hearts.
I heard that during whole nights of filming, in the winter, you had to sit, smoke and cry - and not speak.
How do you connect with such a character?
"I call it channeling. Everyone who suffers from depression - suffers from it differently. I let this thing drain me of all will to live. This is the way that I wasn't cold outside and it wasn't difficult for me to sit for hours and shoot one scene for two or three days. Two days- Three days I had to cry all the days of the shoot. It wasn't difficult for me, because it's the emotional state. I think I know depression. Even if not clinical and not with a desire to kill myself. But I manage to connect with the energy of one and the nothingness of the other. Clinical depression is not Like depression because of the war. Clinical depression can continue even when you have everything and when everything is fine, so to speak."
Wino-Elad won critical acclaim for her role, and the feeling is that this is truly one of her greatest roles.
It is not surprising then that at the premiere of the series, Shefferman told her: "In my youth, when I saw Mike Lee's films, I would imagine how much fun he would have working with such actors. I feel that today I no longer need to imagine. You know that I tried to direct and accompany all of you right up to to the border crossing, to the point where you cross the lines alone, when all I have left is to wish you success. Sarah, I always felt like I was abandoning you so far from the destination, the job was tough, and the place you were required to reach was so mysterious, and you looked at me Brave to the dark abyss, every time you crossed the line you came back to me with something meaningful. I feel that you have done us as writers and many people who fight clinical depression a favor."
Vino-Elad, for her part, flew back at the creator of the series.
"Yuval Shperman is a stinking genius. He knows how to tell a story at a level that makes him want to take one off. It really grabs you by the balls," she says.
"It's the first time I've rehearsed so much for television. I didn't understand what he wanted in rehearsal. I wanted to die and kill him. But I'm a disciplined actress so I try. I knew this character required a different kind of concentration than anything I've ever done in my life. It was difficult to bring This thing for rehearsals. And we created a language and I was able to understand what he wanted."
Sarit Vino Elad/Reuven Castro
Your character, Smeder, doesn't really break up with her ex, played by Pablo Rosenberg.
Is this something that corresponds to your relationship in reality with your ex?
"Not on this level, but of course. My ex-husband is the father of my two daughters and he will forever remain my family. Whatever he needs and when he needs it, he will tell me - and I'm there. I want to hope the other way around as well. We are a family. I have a very hard time seeing people who are alive otherwise. It's hard for me for them."
In your youth you lived for a year and a half in Argentina.
Did it strengthen the relationship with Pablo Rosenberg in the filming?
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"We could sell them all in Spanish. Whoever is with Pablo for three minutes understands that there is no need to look for ways to strengthen the relationship with him. He is the easiest person in the world to get in touch with. I have never seen anything like it. It is harder to get in touch with three-year-old children than with Pablo Rosenberg . He's approachable, open and optimistic to the extent that you want to slap him. I'm sick of him. Then I also met his brother. Then their sisters. A family, something."
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Filming for the series ended nearly a year before the war broke out.
On October 7, for other reasons, Vino-Elad found herself similar to her character - hardly separated from the couch at home.
"This day was too much. This war is one war too many," says Wino-Elad.
"For ten years, since I got divorced, I don't watch the news. On October 7th, I got up from the shelter of the building at about 6:40, and since then the TV is on at 12 and I watch the news. I had a lot of trouble getting myself off the couch."
The abyss into which we have fallen in the country reminds me that Mutti Kirschenbaum said that every time you think you have reached the bottom of the barrel, there is a knock from below.
"Kirschenbaum wasn't here on October 7, and didn't hear the power of the boom. And yet this whole country continues like fucking a herd of zombies after what Netanyahu says and thinks. I can't understand how the day after he didn't go home. You understand that if Bennett had Prime Minister, and if it happened when he was in power on October 7th, there is no way he would come to the meeting as Prime Minister on October 8th. All the jackals would eat his ass, and rightly so. Whoever was in charge on October 7th cannot try on October 8th to correct . He can't. There's no logic in it. It's not in Netanyahu's interest for this thing to end, because after it's over everything will be on his head."
How do you feel about the campaign, including on Channel 14, which attacks the families of the abductees, claiming that the pressure from the families increases the price of the transaction?
They kind of forgot that if they didn't abandon more than 1,200 people there would be no price and no deal.
"You cannot remove the responsibility from Channel 14 and the degenerates who allow themselves to get out of the car and attack a mother whose child is a prisoner in hell. Each of them has their responsibility. But there is only one person standing at the end of this - and that is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He sets this tone. He He's not crazy, he's not a psychopath and he's not mentally ill. He's despicable, he's vile, he's dark, he's self-interested. The man knows exactly what he's doing. To say about people, the most precious thing to them - their child or their father or their lover - because of you was kidnapped and found In the hands of these monsters, to say a single bad word about them?! It's despicable. I don't understand how this man isn't sitting in the corner of a room, curled up in a fetal position and beating for sin, for the fact that babies were murdered and pregnant bellies cut open here on his watch. That's the only way he should have to be since October 7. And instead we get this smug man, who comes up time and time again and says: I fight Hamas and you fight me. Who are you?! A lousy public servant! You're not doing it well!".
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Sarit Vino Elad and Pablo Rosenberg in the series "Tito and his Spirit"/HOT
Already on October 10, you wrote on Facebook: "Something in me understands that the Israeli entity does not intend to release the abductees who are in Gaza."
Four months have passed, and about 130 abductees are still in Gaza.
"If it wasn't for the crazy pressure of the protest, which Avichai Brodetz started when he sat down in front of the Kriya, I am sure that the 110 who were released would not have been released either. You remember when they returned two abductions that were not part of the agreement (Yehudit and Nathalie Ra'anan - Shab), Netanyahu sent Gal Hirsch who stood between the two.
I looked at it and said: there is no humanity in it.
This is mother and daughter, what will you stand between them?
How dare your male body stand between these two women now?!
This is the image of rudeness, of disgrace, of humiliation, of me and nothing.
I have run out of patience for those who support Netanyahu.
It's not right and it's not left, don't confuse the brain.
If we were here in the hands of normal people, and not in the hands of people with egos that are bigger than the sum of their reproductive organs, then they wouldn't stop the beats."
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She is also angry about the slogan "total victory", as well as the battle cries of "wipe out Gaza", which are heard from many.
"What is erasing Gaza? What do you want to do with the two million people who live there? Erasing Gaza means killing everyone, two million people, are you okay with that? Most Israelis are now okay with that. I want to cry," she says .
"There is the guy with the Persian accent (Eliyahu Yossian - Shab), who said that we should have entered Gaza on the first day and killed 50,000 people.
And he became a celebrity.
I hear him and I itch.
I don't understand how they don't stop him on the air and tell him: this is too much.
Sir, don't talk like that.
Do I need The Hague to say that we don't talk like that?" she adds. "It's terribly easy for us to say 'the world is anti-Semitic' because our broadcasts don't show what's happening in Gaza at all, but the world sees what's happening in Gaza and sees the thousands of civilian deaths.
We have lost the Jewish soul, because a Jewish soul says that life is above all, that the redemption of prisoners is the most important thing in the world."
Wino-Elad's frustration is not lost on the leaders of the opposition either, including one who wrote the series in which she starred in her youth on Channel One, "The Last Freedom" - Yair Lapid. "I don't like to tell you, we don't really live in a democracy, and there really is no right and left here.
There is a right here, and that's it.
There has been no left here for many years.
And there is no opposition here.
These are extinct words," she says. "The opposition should have stood up and said already on October 7: Stand up and resign now.
You don't handle it - because you did it.
There is no opposition.
The opposition put its tail between its legs and said unity, unity, in a feeble humble voice.
Because Yair Lapid wants to be state-owned, he is promoted in his position to the same level that the coalition is promoted in its position.
Opposition is a very important role, and no one has been doing it, for many years, except for Netanyahu when he is in the opposition.
Lapid once said that he would not sit with 'Hazobiz'.
Is this opposition?
And Benny Gantz is not an opposition either.
He went to sit with Netanyahu in the cabinet and be the most transparent and non-covering fig leaf there is.
We see you.
Get up and get out of there!" she says.
Pablo Rosenberg, Sarah Vino Elad and Maggie Ezarzer in the series "Tito and his Spirit"/HOT
Now, Wino-Elad is calling for a stop to the war.
"Everyone jumped into this war with such a lust for revenge. I can understand that in the first ten days. After that - enough. You will not achieve any more achievements, Khalas. Never, in any war, have you achieved the achievements you wanted to achieve. They have always achieved them through diplomatic measures. Stop And bring our children home. Bring the fathers. Bring the girls. Let's see if they are pregnant. Let's take care of what needs to be taken care of. It's been four months, if there are young women there who are pregnant, they can no longer be aborted. Someone from Ben Gavirim and the Samotrichs understands What does that mean? No. They are in their celebrations, they are celebrating Gush Katif now. The psychopaths are dancing, and our children are being killed!"
You can agree with her and you can not, but it is hard not to appreciate Vino-Elad, who for years has not been afraid to express her opinion decisively.
This is what she did in the past in statements and actions against the occupation, for example when she refused to perform in Ariel in 2013, and also when she joined the fight against sexual abuse.
So, for example, when after an investigation voila!
who exposed the Moshe Ivgi affair, she was the first artist who was not afraid to openly criticize the actor, and also tell about the verbal harassment she received from him.
"Ivegi's cheeky lawyer wasn't ashamed to tell me that I was doing this to become famous," Vino-Elad says angrily, "I told him, who cares anyway? You piece of idiot. It was also at a time when I wasn't working at all. How to become famous?!" .
"If we lose our humanity - we have nothing to gain. There is no role that is worth my silence in things that are important," she says.
Sarit Vino-Elad/Reuven Castro
Somehow, looking ahead.
After working with Dina Sanderson on the series "Tito and his Spirit", Wino-Elad was supposed to work with her brother, director Adam Sanderson, on a new film - rehearsals for which were to begin in October and filming in November.
The war interrupted that too.
"What a genetic cocktail there is in the Sanderson family!", she says, "This film is a piece of pearl, Dror Kern also participates in it, and it will happen again, I'm optimistic."
In the past, Vino-Elad shared in the economic difficulties.
"The corona and the war made the situation worse, everything is a blow," she says, "but I'm alive and I'm relatively healthy, so what's there to talk about? Besides the fact that my car's engine went out, so you'll know now what will happen. It doesn't help me to know that not only I'm in this situation. It would be much easier for me if everyone had a lot and only I had a little, then I could ask for help. Right now the situation is that everyone is in financial anxiety and financial difficulty and not knowing what will happen. I simply already have experience with this."
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Is this something that will happen, the music?
"It happens all the time, but in a small way and in my own way. Let's just say that I won't be Noa Kirel. It would be a bit pathetic of me to want to be. But I hope that one or two more musicals will pass through my resume. And I want to do an evening of theater songs that I really like. I I'll do it my way, it probably won't fill Caesarea, but it will be mine."
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Sarit Vino Elad/Reuven Castro
Times of crisis lead to unifications in culture.
Which union would you be happy for from the productions you participated in in the past: the esteemed "Haborganim"?
"The last freedom - 35 years later"?
"Let's just say that I will probably go with a union of the 'bourgeois'. The 'last freedom' is less relevant today, I think. The thought of a union of this makes me laugh. In general, I think that moving forward is more correct for me than moving backwards. I really think that what beats It's our preoccupation with the past. It's not that we can erase it or ignore it, but if we owe the past again and again and again and again then we have no energy for the present."
"But the thing that really came to my mind is less easy: to remake the play 'The Tramp' in which I played at the Beer Sheva Theater. It ran very few times and it was a very strong play. The play dealt with a war zone in the Congo where the ones who pay the price are women, who are sexually assaulted severe with physical injury. They would cut them and leave them to bleed to death. When we did the play they asked about the relevance of this to the State of Israel, and to my great regret it became so relevant to Israel. I wondered several times if it would have resonated elsewhere if we had done it Now, if people would understand that there is no there and here - everything is here, everything happens here. When there are torture factories in China and four-year-old children work 20 hours a day and we buy the products and cheaply, the fact that we do not want to know that this is how it happens does not mean that our children will not have to soon go out to work in all kinds of factories because their parents will have no way to buy them food. Because our money is used in an irresponsible and incorrect way. We can try to ignore what is happening in the world, in a place far away from us, but if we talk about unity, then unity is uniformity, as opposed to Why do you want it to happen so that I keep my mouth shut and don't speak? Unity is an understanding that we are all connected to each other.
We all depend on each other.
And one person cannot have good, and another person bad, because these are circles and they will reverse.
This is unity - the understanding that we are all on the same ship, and if it sinks - we will all sink, and it doesn't matter if you have a suite for $6,000 a night or a room for $200.
It's the same ship."
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