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| | Ephraim Kishon |
 | | As the title character, a good-natured but incorrigible layabout, Topol becomes embroiled in a plot to rob the Israeli lottery, all the while indulging his boundless zeal for mischief and romance. |
 | | Kishon's sharp, frequently hilarious satire stands as a watershed event in Israeli cinema, highlighted by Topol's classic performance as Sallah. |
 | | Topol plays the seemingly cloddish patriarch, Sallah, as an inept, natural, and occasionally, comic clown... |
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