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Hava Nagila
Directed by
Roberta Grossman
Not Rated
2012
75m
Documentary
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Comedy
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6.4
89%
67%
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A documentary on the history, mystery, and meaning of the ubiquitous Jewish standard that follows the around-the-world journey of the song from Ukraine to Youtube. of the song "Hava Nagila."
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Cast of Hava Nagila
Rusty Schwimmer
Narrator (voice)
Harry Belafonte
Self
Glen Campbell
Self
Connie Francis
Self
Danny Maseng
Self
Leonard Nimoy
Self
Regina Spektor
Self
Roberta Grossman
Director / Producer
Sophie Sartain
Writer / Producer
Marta Kauffman
Producer
Hava Nagila Ratings & Reviews
Spirituality & Health
Bilge Ebiri
Grossman explores the song's history further, the film gains in power. A look at the unlikely journey of a song becomes an ennobling, occasionally troubling look at Jewish history, going back to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...
Oregonian
Jamie S. Rich
The film is alternately fascinating and entertaining, though you'll likely be sick of hearing the familiar melody by the time it's through.
EntertainmentTell
Stephen Silver
The film isn't slick and doesn't have the greatest production values I've ever seen, but it's still an enjoyable romp through the history of a great song.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Thankfully there are enough eloquent talking heads to keep this watchable.
Chicago Sun-Times
Donald Liebenson
A slight, but very satisfying, and at times, surprisingly moving, documentary about the inescapable Jewish anthem and wedding and bar mitzvah music staple.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
It is annoying, frustrating, embarrassing, and irresistible, which makes it a perfect Rorschach test and intriguing metaphor for contemporary Jewish identity.
Boston Globe
Loren King
An entertaining examination of the "kitschy and profound" song's cultural and historical origins.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
What does it mean? Do we really care? We should.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
It's a fun, nostalgic, informative journey.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Balancing the anecdotal with the informative, this charming docu at once celebrates and explains the origins of the iconic Jewish tune.
Mark Leeper's Reviews
Mark R. Leeper
As one interviewee says the song "is a melody that evokes new life, hope, and joy." The song does that and so does HAVA NAGILA (THE MOVIE).
Newsday
John Anderson
The attitude is so much fun and the story so involving that a little naches is forgivable.
Movie Dearest
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Fun and illuminating...The movie as well as the song serve as fitting, entertaining testaments to the resilience of the Jewish people.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
What you get is an awful lot of filler, including every performer who ever sang "Hava Nagila," from Harry Belafonte to Glen Campbell using it as the flip side to "True Grit."
New York Times
Rachel Saltz
The filmmakers mix the playful and serious, with only occasional lapses.
NPR
Ella Taylor
Grossman finds lively, often passionate and funny interpreters - among them rabbis, historians, musicologists and klezmer musicians - to guide us through the song's many transformations.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Anyone who grew up dancing to "Hava Nagila" at weddings and bar mitzvahs may be interested to learn the song's origins.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Patronizing from toe to chin, the film opts continually for self-congratulation and cheesy aphorism, and could've-should've been comfortable slotted into a half hour of airtime on TJC.
Slant Magazine
Kalvin Henely
The doc can at times feel like you're wasting your time on a subject you might wish you had only accidentally crossed paths with briefly on Wikipedia.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
This richly entertaining documentary relates the history of the ubiquitous song that has been covered by everyone from Lena Horne to Elvis.
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