Film

A Thousand and One Wives

1989 · 1h 30m · Drama

IMDb

6.0

The Bukharan neighborhood of Jerusalem in the 1920s Naftali is a wealthy trader and a middle-aged widow whose all his former wives have mysteriously passed away and he is afraid to remarry with a belief that he has a curse on him. The matchmaker presses and the old woman coaxes and finally carries Flora, a 24-year-old virgin, but not to infect her with a curse, he avoids any physical contact with her. The plot gets complicated when Flora gets hurt as a result of her relationship with the fabric merchant, and Naftali, who can't bear the shame, turns his anger on his young wife.

Yossi Pollak

Naftali

Nissim Azikri

The Wise

Salim Daw

Matchmaker

Rivka Bahar

Masuda

Rita Yahan-Farouz

Flora

Levana Finkelstein

Jonathan Cherchi

Cutter

Nava Ziv

Zulicha

Varda Ben Hur

Etti Grotes

Tikva Aziz

David Baruch

Doctor

Geula Nuni

Amira Polin

Tsipora Tsabari

Naftali's Mother

• Michal Bat-AdamDirector · Writer
• Dan Benaya-SerriNovel
• Effi AtadProducer
• Yoav KoshDirector of Photography
• Yosef GrunfeldEditor
• Levia HonCasting

Release date

February 14, 1989

Status

Released

Original language

Hebrew

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Drama