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Yoram Gross is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Australien born on 18 october 1926 at Kraków (Pologne)

Yoram Gross

Yoram Gross
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Nationality Australie
Birth 18 october 1926 at Kraków (Pologne)
Death 21 september 2015 (at 88 years)
Creator of Flying Bark Productions

Yoram Gross (né le 18 octobre 1926 à Cracovie en Pologne, et mort le 21 septembre 2015 à Sydney, en Australie) est un réalisateur et producteur australien de films d'animation pour enfants.

Auteur de films pleins de charme, il a de réels talents de conteur. Il est connu en particulier pour la série Blinky Bill et Dot et le Kangourou.

Biography

Né en Pologne dans une famille inscrite sur la liste de Schindler, il parvient à échapper aux nazis. Après la guerre, il travaille pour le cinéaste Joris Ivens, puis émigre en Israël où il travaille comme caméraman de documentaires. Il s'exile alors en Australie où il fonde sa propre société, Yoram Gross Films studios.

Il remporte le Prix de la compétition internationale du film expérimental en 1958 pour Chansons sans paroles.

En 1995, il a été décoré de l'Ordre d'Australie pour sa contribution à l'industrie cinématographique de son pays.

Usually with

Robyn Moore
Robyn Moore
(11 films)
Keith Scott
Keith Scott
(11 films)
Ross Higgins
Ross Higgins
(7 films)
Ron Haddrick
Ron Haddrick
(6 films)
Anne Haddy
Anne Haddy
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Yoram Gross (20 films)

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Director

Dot in Space
Dot in Space (1994)
, 1h3
Directed by Yoram Gross
Genres Science fiction, Animation
Actors Robyn Moore, Keith Scott
Rating57% 2.857132.857132.857132.857132.85713
Dot decides to rescue Whyka, the Russian space dog, who is circling the earth trapped in a broken down satellite. After making her way into the space lab's complex, Dot trades with the space monkey Buster, then pilots an American rocket and sets a course to rescue Whyka. After the successful rescue, they both end up stranded on an alien planet, where a dictator named Papa Drop rules over people who are perfectly round in shape (called the Roundies) and ostracises people who do not have this perfection. Dot makes her escape and helps 'The Party' (In fact Papa's defective son Rolly) to turn the Roundies army against Papa and enable everyone no matter their shape, to a peaceful coexistence once more. With this business finished, Dot and Whyka get back in their rocket and return to Earth.
Sarah
Sarah (1992)
, 1h10
Directed by Yoram Gross
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Animation
Themes Political films
Actors Mia Farrow, Jacki Weaver, Joan Bruce, Ron Haddrick, Shane Porteous
Rating60% 3.0011553.0011553.0011553.0011553.001155
The story is about a little girl during the beginning of the Second World War. When the German soldiers invade, she and her family are forced to hide in the woods. When her grandmother gets sick, her father goes into town for medicine and disappears. Sarah goes out to pick berries and when she returns, the rest of her family is gone. Sarah is forced to survive alone in the woods with only the animals for company. One day she sees some resistance fighters attempt to destroy a bridge the Nazis use to transport weapons. When their attempt fails, she decides to destroy the bridge herself, hoping that her actions may end the war. Over time she is successful, but afterwards sadly realizes that what she has done will not end the war and walks away into the forest.
Blinky Bill
Blinky Bill (1992)
, 1h30
Directed by Yoram Gross
Genres Animation
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Robyn Moore, Keith Scott
Rating61% 3.0976453.0976453.0976453.0976453.097645
The local woodlanders are carrying with their everyday life as normal until the next morning, when two men Harry and Joe start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs Koala's home, and a tree knocks Blinky Bill unconscious.
The Magic Riddle
The Magic Riddle (1991)
, 1h33
Directed by Yoram Gross
Genres Animation
Themes Films about children, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Keith Scott, Robyn Moore
Rating58% 2.9472.9472.9472.9472.947
Cindy, short for Cinderella, lives with her widowed stepmother and two stepsisters, Bertha and Ertha. Cindy is forced to do all of the housework and is effectively a servant. The widow hates Cindy because when her late Grandfather died, he hid his will which the widow knows passes all the family inheritance to Cindy. The widow purposely keeps Cindy busy so that she won't find the will, giving the widow time to find it first. The widow is also planning to marry her favorite daughter, Bertha, to a handsome young man named Phillipe, though he is smitten with Cindy.
Dot Goes to Hollywood
Dot Goes to Hollywood (1988)
, 1h13
Directed by Yoram Gross
Genres Animation
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Robyn Moore, Keith Scott, Ross Higgins
Rating55% 2.7541152.7541152.7541152.7541152.754115
Yoram Gross's eighth Dot movie opens in Australia with Dot and a koala named Gumley dancing and singing in the streets. There is evidence of an epidemic, revealed to be an eye disease, which is spreading fast among the koalas, causing blindness and death. Gumley has contracted the disease and he and Dot are trying to raise money to pay for an operation, but they are unsuccessful. A kangaroo suggests that Dot goes to Hollywood where she will be able to raise the money in no time.
Dot and the Smugglers
Dot and the Smugglers (1987)

Directed by Yoram Gross
Genres Animation
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Robyn Moore, Ross Higgins, Keith Scott
Rating64% 3.2189153.2189153.2189153.2189153.218915
In her latest adventure, Dot and her friends, kids and animals alike, must work together to help ensure that two smugglers from a circus don't capture the legendary Bunyip.
Dot and the Whale
Dot and the Whale (1986)
, 1h14
Directed by Yoram Gross
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Keith Scott, Robyn Moore
Rating68% 3.420283.420283.420283.420283.42028
The film starts off with a scene from the novel Moby Dick, with a whaler on a stormy sea in the 19th century, chasing "the white whale". It turns out that the scene comes from the imagination of Dot, while she is sitting with the book. She goes out to play with Nelson the dolphin in his pool, and he teaches her how to stay underwater for long periods of time and to communicate underwater, as well as the history and evolution of sea creatures.
Dot And Keeto
Dot And Keeto (1986)
, 1h14
Directed by Yoram Gross
Genres Animation
Themes Musical films
Actors Robyn Moore, Keith Scott
Rating61% 3.093423.093423.093423.093423.09342
L'amour de Doty pour toutes les créatures grandes et petites s'étend même aux insectes. Ses bonnes actions en sauvant un moustique et une libellule d'une toile d'araignée finissent par payer. Après avoir mangé accidentellement une racine magique qui la ramène à la taille des insectes, la petite Doty est seule et a peur parmi les 'énormes' fourmis et terrifiantes araignées de son jardin. Mais Keeto le moustique et un personnage amical nommé Toumou la chenille viennent à son secours.
Dot and the Koala
Dot and the Koala (1985)
, 1h11
Directed by Yoram Gross
Genres Animation
Themes Musical films
Actors Robyn Moore, Keith Scott
Rating61% 3.092563.092563.092563.092563.09256
Doty vient en aide à ses amis animaux indigènes quand Bruce le koala lui parle des plans de construction d'un énorme barrage qui détruira leur environnement. Mais les animaux de ferme locaux croient que la création du barrage va catapulter leur petite ville de campagne dans le 21ème siècle. Les deux côtés luttant pour ce qu'ils croient être juste, les plans de Doty pour effacer le barrage sont mis en péril par les détectives locaux Sherlock os et son offsider Watson le chat!