Micha Shagrir


Micha Shagrir was an Israeli film director, producer, radio presenter, and journalist. He produced feature and documentary films and TV shows.
He was the head of Kastel Productions, a co-founder of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem, and a chairman of the.

Biography

Micha Shagrir was born in Linz, Austria as Josef Michael Schwager. His father Karl Schwager emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1921, where he lived in kibbutz Heftziba and where he met Micha Shagrir's mother, Vally. She already had a son Chaim, from her recently deceased husband Georg Grünwald. They returned to Austria in 1932 or 1933, but immediately after the Nazi's Anschluss, in April 1938 they emigrated to Palestine. At first they lived in Heftziba, later in Tel Aviv and Holon. Later Micha lived in other places. In 1949 the family changed their surname to Shagrir. The father took the name Hanan, and the mother Yehudit
Micha Shagrir graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Family

Micha Shagrir was married to Aliza Shagrir in Jerusalem in 1961. She was murdered during the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing while on Sukkot vacation and passing by the assaulted rue Copernic synagogue. They had two sons, Oron and Hagai. Micha Shagrir established the Aliza Shagrir Foundation in her memory, for awarding young documentary filmmakers.

Awards

Filmography

Shagrir directed and produced over 250 documentaries, television and feature films.
  • 1967: , about a squad that infiltrated across the border to capture a wanted terrorist
  • 1969: