Amos Kollek

Kollek interests me because he chose the harder road. An Israeli filmmaker, writer, and actor educated at Hebrew University, he could have leaned on a famous family name but instead turned his camera toward the margins, women surviving at the edges of New York. I value directors who refuse to prettify their subjects, and his reputation rests on exactly that unsentimental gaze. The multi-hyphenate path, directing, writing, and acting, tells me he trusts his own vision rather than committees. To me he is a quietly serious artist of the overlooked, the kind of independent voice worth rediscovering.

Name (English)

Amos Kollek

Name (Japanese)

アモス・コレック

Reading

あもす・これっく

Born

September 15, 1947 (age 78)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

Origin

Jerusalem, Quds Governorate, Israel

Occupation

film director / writer / screenwriter / film actor / theatre director

University

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF

Tags

• Quds Governorate
• film director
• writer
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.