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ELLIE SAGI (HIS ORIGINAL NAME: ELIEZER PERLSTEIN, BORN ON JULY 10, 1939) IS AN ISRAELI WRITER, PLAYWRIGHT AND WRITER. AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS CAREER, HE WAS PUBLISHED BY A SERIES OF SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS FOR YOUTH, CAPTAIN YUNO, WHO WROTE IN THE EARLY 1960S. HE LATER WROTE PLAYS, INCLUDING "MY GENERAL MOTHER", AND SOME OF THEM ARE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PLAYMAN IN THE HISTORY OF THE COMMERCIAL THEATRE IN ISRAEL. HE WAS APPOINTED WITH THE CREATORS OF THE “BIG RESTAURANT” TELEVISION SERIES ON ISRAELI TELEVISION IN ARABIC AND DIRECTED THE FILM “MY DAD’S MADNESS” BASED ON TWO OF HIS PLAYS.

HIS LIFE.

THE BEGINNING OF HIS WAY.
BORN IN THE NAME OF ELIEZER PERLSTEIN TO JOSEPH PERLSTEIN AND HELEN BURKE IN POLAND. HIS FATHER WAS A WRITER AND JOURNALIST IN YIDDISH AND HIS MOTHER WAS ALSO A WRITER.
IN HIS CHILDHOOD, HE CALLED AND RECITED YIDDISH AT VARIOUS EVENTS BEFORE A JEWISH AUDIENCE. IN 1949, HIS FAMILY IMMIGRATED TO ISRAEL.

CAPTAIN YUNO
THE SERIES DEALS WITH A YOUNG BOY AND GIRL WHO STEALS INTO SPACE AS HIDDEN PASSENGERS, AND UNDERGO A SERIES OF ADVENTURE IN SPACE. THE HEROES ARE RUSSIAN, PROBABLY THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUCCESS OF THE SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM AT THE TIME. DURING THE SERIES, THE HEROES BECOME COSMONAUTIANS THEMSELVES.

THE SERIES CONSISTS OF THREE BOOKS: CAPTAIN YUNO'S ADVENTURERS ON THE MYSTERIOUS STAR (PUBLISHED BY A. D. DR. 1963), "CAPTAIN YUNO'S ADVENTURE IN A DANGEROUS MISSION" (PUBLISHED A. DR. 1963), AND "CAPTAIN YUNO'S ADVENTURE AMONG THE SOLAR SYSTEM ROBBERS." SAGI APPARENTLY PLANNED A FOURTH BOOK CALLED CAPTAIN YONO'S ADVENTURERS IN THE KINGDOM OF LOST MARS, BUT THIS WAS NOT HIDDEN.

AT THAT TIME, SAGI ALSO PUBLISHED A BOOK CALLED HISTORY OF SCIENCE, WITH A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE TWELVE FIELDS OF SCIENCE.

THE COMMERCIAL THEATER
IN THE MID-1960S, SAGI LEFT THE FIELD OF SCIENCE FICTION, TURNING TO CINEMA AND THEATRE. HE WROTE AND DIRECTED DOZENS OF TRAINING AND COMMERCIAL FILMS. AS A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE INSTITUTE OF LABOR AND PRODUCTION, HE WROTE THE DIALOGUES TO A BROKEN PHONE FILM, NATHAN GROSS.

IN THE THEATER, GUY BEGAN IN THE EVENINGS OF SKETCHES AND A DRAMATIC AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PLAY, THE BOUNDARY OF TRUTH.

LATER, HE WROTE FOLK COMEDIES THAT HAD ACHIEVED UNPRECEDENTED COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. THE FIRST OF THEM, MY MOTHER GENERAL, FOR IF SHE CAME IN SURPRISE TO THE MILITARY BASE WHERE HER SON SERVED, WAS PRESENTED IN ISRAEL 1084 TIMES, WAS PRODUCED IN 14 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND LANGUAGES, AND WORKS FOR THE FILM IN 1979. IT WAS ESTIMATED THAT A QUARTER OF ISRAEL’S RESIDENTS SAW THE SHOW. ANOTHER SHOW, THE DOCTOR, WAS PRESENTED IN ISRAEL 380 TIMES, AND WAS PRODUCED IN TEN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.

ON THE OTHER HAND, SAGI’S PERFORMANCES WERE POORLY CRITICIZED. IT WAS ARGUED THAT THEY WERE DESIGNED BY A FIXED FORMULA: A CLOSED PLACE WITH A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE COMING FROM A GUEST, OR “FALL,” FROM THE OUTSIDE; ITS APPEARANCE CREATES SURPRISES AND COMPLICATIONS, AND THE GROUP IS FORCED TO UNITE TO DEAL WITH THEM.

THE LARGE RESTAURANT

THE BIG RESTAURANT COMEDY WAS AN ORIGINAL PRODUCTION BROADCAST ON ISRAELI TELEVISION IN ARABIC FROM 1985 TO 1988. THE SERIES CONSISTED OF 39 EPISODES. SAGI WAS ONE OF THE SERIES’ CREATORS, WROTE MOST OF THE SCRIPTS, AND TWO, ALONG WITH AVI AMBER, THE FIRST 12 EPISODES. IN MARCH 2011, HE WROTE:

THE SERIES WAS SUCCESSFUL. 83.2% OF ISRAEL’S TELEVISION SHOWS REGULARLY, AS WELL AS MANY IN ARAB COUNTRIES, CYPRUS AND TURKEY. THE CHARACTERS OF THE SERIES AND ITS PLAYERS ALSO APPEARED IN THE EXHIBITION "A WEDDING IN THE BIG RESTAURANT" (1988), A SPIN-OFF THAT CREATED A GYNACLE.

LATE YEARS.
IN 1981, HE WROTE AND DIRECTED THE FILM "MY FATHER'S CRAZY" WITH DR. GABY PANI IN THE MAIN ROLE.

IN 1994, SAGI CREATED A CHANNEL 2 TELEVISION SERIES FAFA, WHICH DEALS WITH A FIVE-YEAR-OLD FAMILY, STARRING WOLF PROFIT. THE SERIES HAS NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL.

IN 2008, HE PRODUCED A HILLY THEATRE, AS PART OF A COLLABORATION WITH THE ABSORPTION OFFICE, A PLAY BY SAGI IN THE NAME OF HIS WIFE'S LOVER, IN TRANSLATION TO SPANISH. THIS PRODUCTION ALSO DID NOT WIN THE MEMORIAL AND GUY RETIRED FROM WRITING TO THE THEATRE.

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