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The Electrifiers

The band “The Electrifiers” won the 1984 Best New Artist Award for their smash
hit which no one remembers and has been stuck in traffic on the fast track to
international stardom ever since. 30 years later, the band members, continue to drag
themselves between gigs at nursing houses and cheap B&B'S. The lead singer,
Mickey Tevel, a once charismatic showman, is still leading the life of a 20-year-old
rocker: dreaming of making it big while living hand to mouth out of the band's van,
conveniently parked in his ex-wife's garage. Mickey won’t stop messing up and
letting all his band members down, as well as his teenage daughter, but just as

everyone is about to become completely fed up with him, a surprising, once-in-a-
lifetime opportunity presents itself, which could deliver the band’s long awaited

comeback, and propel them straight to the top.

  • Boaz Armoni
    Director
    Freak out
  • Zvika Nathan
    Writer
  • Sarel Piterman
    Writer
    Douze Points
  • Shir Reuven
    Writer
    Hayom BaLayla, Gav HaUma - Israeli Late night shows
  • Gal Greenspan
    Producer
    Youth, Scaffolding, Orange People, Back to Maracana, Wherever You Go
  • Roi Kurland
    Producer
    Youth, Scaffolding, Orange People, Back to Maracana, Wherever You Go
  • Zvika Nathan
    Producer
  • Zvika Nathan
    Key Cast
  • Tal Friedman
    Key Cast
    Eretz Nehederet, Not in Tel Aviv, This is Sodom
  • Sharon Alexander
    Key Cast
    Munich
  • Yigal Adika
    Key Cast
    The Good Cop, Lost Islands
  • Uri Hochman
    Key Cast
    Shtisel, Asylum City
  • Tamara Klingon
    Key Cast
    Zero Motivation
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 30 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 7, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    1,433,129 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Israel
  • Country of Filming:
    Israel, United States
  • Language:
    Hebrew
  • Shooting Format:
    3.2 K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Haifa International Film Festival
    Haifa
    Israel
    October 20, 2019
    World Premeire
Director Biography - Boaz Armoni

Boaz Armoni, born in 1979, graduated from the Cinema Department of the Hamidrasha art school at Beit Berl. His graduate movie "Desert trains" was screened at dozens of festivals around the world and won several awards. His first full-length feature film, The Comedy Horror "Freak out" was released in a worldwide distribution in 2016 and was a success at genre festivals around the world. In addition, he is a director, screenwriter and producer with a rich resume of Historic drama movies (Escape from Acre Prison, Herod, Letters from the war, etc.) and in the world of advertising and new media. "The electrifiers" is his second full-length film and this year he will shoot his third film "Nail."

Boaz lives in Tel Aviv with his two children.

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Director Statement

The Electrifiers is a coming of age comedy centered on a 60-year-old teenager.
Mickey Tevel, the Electrifiers’ lead singer, keeps dreaming and believing he could
take America by storm with his music. He hasn’t picked up on the rather unsubtle
hints life has dropped him over the past 40 years. Like every adolescent, he thinks no
one gets him and that one day he’s gonna show everyone. The ever-growing distance
between Mickey and his fantasy render him a tragic-comic character. But when the
geographical distance between Mickey and his fantasy is diminished, the distance
between reality and dream becomes ever so clear, and forces Mickey to finally grow
up. Mickey’s disillusionment will eventually enable him, for the first time in his life,
to acknowledge the love of the people truly close to him; yet expect his journey there
to be very amusing...