A Thousand and One Wives

A Thousand and One Wives — Plot

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.

• Release date
• February 14, 1989
• Runtime
• 90 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Michal Bat-Adam

A Thousand and One Wives — Cast

Yossi Pollak Naftali Nissim Azikri The Wise Salim Daw Matchmaker Rivka Bahar Masuda Rita Yahan-Farouz Flora Levana Finkelstein

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Jonathan Cherchi Cutter

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Nava Ziv Zulicha