A Thousand and One Wives (movie)
אלף נשותיו של נפתלי סימן טוב- User score: 8
- Production country: Israel
- Producer: Michal Bat-Adam
- Production companies: Israeli Film Fund
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 2/14/1989
- Run time: 90 min.
Movie description
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.
