The Graduate

Haifa Classics

""Hoffman and Bancroft are as irresistibly watchable as ever"
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The Guardian
  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Mike Nichols
  • USA 1967
  • 106 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

50th Anniversary of the Film

One of the most beloved American films of all time, The Graduate earned Mike Nichols a best director Oscar, brought the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience, and introduced the world to a young actor named Dustin Hoffman.

Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and becomes sexually involved with a friend of his parents, the indomitable Mrs. Robinson, before turning his attention to her college-age daughter.

Filmography: Closer (2004), The Birdcage (1996), Working Girl (1988), Silkwood (1983), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Catch-22 (1970), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

Restored Digital Copy


  • Director Mike Nichols
  • Production Lawrence Turman
  • Script Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, based on the novel by Charles Webb
  • Cinematography Robert Surtees
  • Editing Sam O’Steen
  • Music Simon & Garfunkel
  • Actors Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels
  • Source Tamasa Distribution, Paris