The Sad and Foretold End of Zohar Argov

Our series "The Sad and Foretold End of Zohar Argov" deals with genius, racism, immigration, death, Israeli culture, and individualism versus society. Zohar didn't perform in Caesarea, the ultimate arena for successful musician in Israel. He lived and died preforming mostly in events and weddings with his closest and beloved audience. And Zohar was a boundless person who met a cruel death like his father and grandfather before him. We told the whole truth without hiding anything, in an intimate way through the closest witnesses in context of Israeli evolvement in the thirty years since Zohar's death.

We approached the people closest to Zohar, and thirty years after his death, they opened and told us everything, as it has never been told before. We went to the family and public archives and found treasures there. We followed Zohar's journey to success and downfall, his relationships with his parents, brothers, friends, and the country. The story of Zohar's rise and fall, depicted in the three episodes of the series, is also a story of a family tragedy that passes from father to son and breaks the family apart. It is a curse that mixes power and talent with a tendency towards addiction and self-destruction. Zohar's grandfather, an important person in Yemen, did not survive the immigration to Israel and became an alcoholic who died in a terrible way. Zohar's father, a singer himself, became an alcoholic as well, following in his father's footsteps. And after him, Zohar came with his addictions to everything, and then his son Gili. All this against the backdrop of Zohar's attempt to integrate into Israeli society, into the arrogant cultural elite of the 1970s, where there was no place for "others," who grew up in the neighborhoods and didn't receive a musical education or served in a military band, which was the accepted route to the media. Zohar grew up on the margins but wanted to conquer the world. He was boundless in his conquest attempts as he was in his relationships with people, drugs, and the law. The journey to glory is also a journey to the abyss and death at the age of 32. So, the series is about the meteoric rise of a neighborhood kid and his rapid downfall, passing on the legacy of talent, addiction, and self-destruction from generation to generation.