Acting
In this Israeli comedy, the baker has half a winning lottery ticket, and his deceased partner has the other. In order to benefit from winning, somebody needs to put the two together. The baker searches stealthily for the missing half, so do the dead partner's son-in-law and a group of thieves who hear of this potential windfall. There is some slapstick as this group chases one or another of its member through the streets and shops of Tel-Aviv
Based on a short story by Abraham B. Jehoshua, the movie follows Eli (Oded Kotler) taking care of an old girlfriend's child for three days. He wants him to get hurt, he worries about him. Will the child survive the three days? Will Eli?
Shlomo, a local Eilatian bachelor is in search of a bigger flat where he can conduct his experiments with a revolutionary cooling machine he had invented. Eilat, however, is in the grips of a housing crisis, meaning only couples are eligible to apply for bigger council flats. The only problem is, Eilat is also very much in short supply of single women. With that in mind, Shlomo decides to try his luck in Tel Aviv and heads to the big city.
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.
Werner Fahrenheim comes home from the war after a long period in captivity, only to realise that no one is there to welcome him, that the world he had left behind has since changed beyond recognition, and that his wife Inga did not wait for him.
