Samuel Maoz Samuel Maoz Samuel Maoz (Hebrew: שמואל מעוז; born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director. His 2009 film, "Lebanon" won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Screenplay for Lebanon at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2010. Shmuel (Shmuel) Maoz was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 20, he was a gunner in one of the first Israeli tanks to enter Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War. After the war, he trained as a cameraman at the Beit Zvi theater school, and did art direction in film
The State of Things (film) shooting during the opening of "The State of Things", was repeatedly called a remake of either "Day the World Ended" or "Most Dangerous Man Alive" by reviewers and encyclopaedia, it bears no close resemblance to either except for the post-apocalyptic scenery. In 1994, Wenders made "Lisbon Story", in which the fictitious film director in "The State of Things", Friedrich Munro (played again by Bauchau), reappears under the name Friedrich Monroe, having expatriated to Portugal. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival of 1982. In 1983, it won the German Film Award in Gold for Cinematography and