Normali
Normali is an Israeli television drama series created by Leore Dayan and Asaf Korman. It stars Roy Nik as the protagonist Noam Ashkenazi, a stressed young columnist with an unhealthy reliance on ritalin to achieve his deadlines. Rami Heuberger stars as Udi, Noam's father and Liron Ben-Shlush plays Noam's psychiatrist, Dr. Zarowski. It premiered on HOT on 4 November 2020.
The series is inspired by Dayan's real-life short stay at a psychiatric hospital and his own illustrious family. He is the son of the film director, Assi Dayan and grandson of Moshe Dayan. Caroline Langford, Assi's ex-wife and Leore's mother, plays Noam's mother in the series.
Plot summary
Noam Ashkenazi is a young 25-year-old columnist who suffered a severe paranoia attack after taking too many Ritalin pills he bought from teenage drug dealers. His concerned father, Udi arranges for him to be admitted to a psychiatric ward. Noam finds himself hospitalized in a closed ward, where he has to face for the first time a foreign environment that includes extreme people and strict rules. In the psychiatric ward he also finds for the first time people who can understand and accept him as he is, which makes him believe that he has found a place where he can feel like he belongs. But the department, and its medical staff, have their own rules and ways of doing things.Cast
- Roy Nik as Noam Ashkenazi, a young columnist
- Rami Heuberger as Udi Ashkenazi, Noam's father and a famous writer
- Liron Ben-Shlush as Dr. Zarowski, Noam's psychiatrist
- Shiraz Lanciano as Karin Maimon, a young patient at the psychiatric ward and Noam's love interest
- Caroline Langford as Noam's mom
- Varda Ben Hur as Nurse
- Lee Gilat as ward patient
- Omer Etzion as Tomer
- Karin Tepper as Nurse Sigal