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Charlie VaHetzi (Charlie and a Half) is a 1974 Israeli comedy and cult movie. The movie was directed by Boaz Davidson and stars Israeli comedians Yehuda Barkan and Ze'ev Revach. If you like Israeli culture, this iconic film is it. It belongs to the long list of "Israeli classics" from the 60's and 70's called "Bourekas Films", which were defined by journalist Uri Klein as a "peculiarly Israeli genre of comic melodramas or tearjerkers... based on ethnic stereotypes."
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